{"id":10493,"date":"2014-01-29T23:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:51:49","slug":"more-news-stories-im-giving-short-shrift-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10493","title":{"rendered":"More news stories I&#8217;m giving short shrift to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t particularly concerned about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/education\/ci_24979444\/minnesotas-teacher-basic-skills-test-would-be-scrapped\">story<\/a> which explains that a recent test being required of teachers to prove they are educated may be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>For one reason Minnesota still has pretty good success graduating kids. Obviously our teachers are not generally stupid or hideous as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/01\/28\/267488648\/backlash-grows-against-common-core-education-standards\">story<\/a> makes clear.<\/p>\n<p>Our public school graduates have the third highest test scores in math and our state has the second highest raking among the states in high school graduates.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;m not being too cavalier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t particularly concerned about this story which explains that a recent test being required of teachers to prove they are educated may be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10494,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}