{"id":282,"date":"2007-01-15T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2007-01-15T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:03:20","slug":"assigned-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Assigned Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Caldwell's guest column\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oakridger.com\/stories\/011507\/opi_138606666.shtml\">Gene Caldwell&#8217;s guest column<\/a> makes for excellent reading today for anyone &#8212; parents, taxpayers, politicians &#8212; interested in education.<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that he, like his predecessor, David Coffey, cites the research of Dr. Bill Sanders &#8212; a nationally-recognized expert in evaluating the gains made by students, and the architect of Tennessee&#8217;s Value-Added Assessment (TVAAS) program.<\/p>\n<p>Both Coffey and Caldwell served on the Education Committee in the Tennessee Legislature.  Coffey is a Republican; Caldwell, a Democrat.  However, their comments on improving education are remarkably similar.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Teacher quality has more impact than any other factor<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Caldwell&#8217;s guest column makes for excellent reading today for anyone &#8212; parents, taxpayers, politicians &#8212; interested in education. I find it interesting that he, like his predecessor, David Coffey, cites the research of Dr. Bill Sanders &#8212; a nationally-recognized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=282\">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":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}