{"id":508,"date":"2011-06-19T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T08:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=508"},"modified":"2011-07-31T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T11:13:41","slug":"making-the-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Making the grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lent a copy of Todd Farley&#8217;s book &#8216;Making the grades: my misadventures in the standardized testing industry&#8217; (published by PoliPointPress in 2009). The blurb on the back of the book says &#8216;Just as American educators, parents and policymakers reconsider the No Child Left Behind Act and its heavy em<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lent a copy of Todd Farley&#8217;s book &#8216;Making the grades: my misadventures in the standardized testing industry&#8217; (published by PoliPointPress in 2009). The blurb on the back of the book says &#8216;Just as American educators, parents and policymakers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[374,375,127,126],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-marking","tag-human-marking","tag-marking-accuracy","tag-standardised-testing","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}