{"id":44626,"date":"2011-08-26T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44626"},"modified":"2011-09-25T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:39:57","slug":"public-education-%e2%80%9cpoverty-is-the-problem%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/public-education-%e2%80%9cpoverty-is-the-problem%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Public education: \u201cPoverty Is the Problem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/8\/26\/story\/poverty_is_the_problem_efforts_to\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rush transcript available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/8\/26\/poverty_is_the_problem_efforts_to\"><strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong><\/a> for those who prefer to read the interview with New York City public school teacher Brian Jones and Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander under President George H. W. Bush, who has since this post dramatically changed her position on education policy. She is the author of <em>The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.<\/em> Budget cuts are resulting in teacher layoffs and larger classes across the country. The drive toward more standardized testing is increasing despite a string of cheating scandals in New York, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and other cities. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also recently unveiled a controversial plan to use waivers to rewrite parts of the nation\u2019s signature federal education law, No Child Left Behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush transcript available at Democracy Now! for those who prefer to read the interview with New York City public school teacher Brian Jones and Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander under President George H. W. Bush, who has since this post dramatically changed her position on &#8230; <a title=\"Public education: \u201cPoverty Is the Problem\u201d\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/public-education-%e2%80%9cpoverty-is-the-problem%e2%80%9d\/\" aria-label=\"More on Public education: \u201cPoverty Is the Problem\u201d\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}