{"id":1019,"date":"2007-07-22T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2007-07-22T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T13:57:34","slug":"more-on-inflated-florida-graduation-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"More on inflated Florida graduation stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2007\/jul\/22\/are-school-graduation-rates-simply-illusion\/\">article by Margaret Susca on GED withdrawals in Florida<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\/2007\/07\/todays-news-21.html\">hat tip<\/a>) again raises issues about an official measure that inflates graduation stats by making schools and districts unaccountable for students who drop out and enter a GED program. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/education\/july-dec04\/dropouts_11-30.html\">2004 John Merrow video segment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000560.html\">2006 brief<\/a> I wrote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m back in my office this morning, continuing reading student papers. <em>Harry Potter<\/em> is downstairs in the car. Incentive, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s article by Margaret Susca on GED withdrawals in Florida&nbsp;(hat tip) again raises issues about an official measure that inflates graduation stats by making schools and districts unaccountable for students who drop out and enter a GED program. More from a 2004 John Merrow video segment More from a 2006 brief I wrote I&#8217;m back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}