Making the Grades at WaPo and Scholastic Administrator

Todd Farley, the author of Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry, has gotten mentioned in two separate reports on the failure of testing company NCS Pearson to properly administer and subsequently score the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog has more on the glitches, and a link to an earlier guest post by Todd himself. Alexander Russo at This Week in Education adds his thoughts on the Florida debacle, and mentions other testing problems in New York. Russo reviewed Making the Grades last year.

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