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The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry
Melissa Roy is a writer and teacher looking at the world through the teeny tiny lens of the industry in which she works: standardized test prep. She thinks about feelings more than she thinks about percentages. She encourages you to question the player only insofar as you scrutinize the game.
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August 15, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: Saying Goodbye
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July 18, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: But Are You Self Aware?
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June 18, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: Tips and Tricks
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May 20, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: The Inadvertent Sliding Scale
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April 21, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: But She Gets Straight A’s
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March 20, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: How Dare You? Or: Supply, Demand, and Diatribe
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January 24, 2014The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: A Little Bit of Extra Help
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November 25, 2013The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: Huge Sums of Money, or “Perspective.”
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October 29, 2013The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: Playing the Game
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September 27, 2013The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: A Beginning, By Way of Some Questions
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