In this alternately amusing and appalling exposé of the standardized test industry, fifteen-year veteran Todd Farley describes statisticians who make decisions about students without even looking at their test answers; state education officials willing to change the way tests are scored whenever they don’t like the results; and massive, multi-national, for-profit testing companies who regularly opt for expediency and profit over the altruistic educational goals of teaching and learning. Although there are absurd moments--as when Farley and coworkers had to grade students based on how they described the taste of their favorite food-- the enormous importance of standardized tests in the post “No Child Left Behind” era make this no laughing matter. “This book is dynamite! The nice personal voice makes it utterly accessible and enticing, wholly apart from the terribly important ammunition it provides to those of us in the `testing wars’ at national and local levels.”—Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequities

Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry

Education & Teaching

Farley, Todd

Schools & Teaching

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

In a workshop taught worldwide, these noted mime artists teach advanced concepts of mime technique developed by Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux. This video studies techniques in depth such as hand designs to create the illusion of a hat, jewelry, sewing, painting, typewriting, oration, caressing, a serpent, an angel, and commands; marches such as march on two points, feline march, tiger march; the theory of Axis (Decroux); Projections and Translations; and Pivots. Each technique is introduced and explained step-by-step and is shown clearly and slowly on the DVD. A booklet outlines these concepts and explains their history and theory.

The Mastery of Mimodrame II: A Masterclass in Mime

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Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry

The Mastery of Mimodrame II: A Masterclass in Mime