{"id":645,"date":"2008-11-20T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2008-11-20T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:50:14","slug":"new-standards-a-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"New Standards: a footnote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scanning through the education stories in the New York Times today, I ran across <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/16\/education\/16cards.html?ref=education\">the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the question of how effective teachers are at moving students forward is a critical one for their bosses, many parents are equally interested in which schools are most likely to, say, have students reading at grade level or ensure that sophomores are mastering algebra. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Sophomores<\/em>?&nbsp; Heck, if they wait until their sophomore year to master Algebra, there&#8217;s no chance of meeting the new graduation standards in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>They absolutely have to master Algebra I by the end of 9th grade, or they won&#8217;t graduate on time (barring the miracle of passing two sequential math classes simultaneously).<\/p>\n<p>Many children can master Algebra I by 8th grade.&nbsp; That has to be the new goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scanning through the education stories in the New York Times today, I ran across the following: While the question of how effective teachers are at moving students forward is a critical one for their bosses, many parents are equally interested &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}