{"id":1654,"date":"2009-06-09T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-06-09T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:49:44","slug":"drug-education-is-not-working-at-least-not-at-ed-in-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Drug education is NOT working&#8230; at least not at ED in &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Strong American Schools&#8217; ED in &#8217;08 campaign became one of the most successful independent advocacy initiatives of the 2008 election season and has helped turn the need for education reform from a low-priority campaign issue into one of the Obama Administration&#8217;s top policy priorities.<br \/><\/em>&#8211;&#8220;Final Report from Strong American Schools&#8221; e-mail from Roy Romer and Marc Lampkin, June 9, 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ED in &#8217;08 spent millions of dollars with almost nothing to show for it. That&#8217;s not a shame in and of itself, because loads of policy and political experiments fail (and that&#8217;s why we call them experiments). But when you flop on a big stage and then claim an Academy Award? Sheesh. Education was one of the lowest-visibility issues in the campaign, it&#8217;s hard to see how education is trumping the economy or health care as a focus of the White House&#8217;s attention, and it&#8217;s even harder to see how ED in &#8217;08 is responsible for whatever attention is being paid to education policy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what Roy Romer and Marc Lampkin are smoking, but I&#8217;m tempted to ask. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong American Schools&#8217; ED in &#8217;08 campaign became one of the most successful independent advocacy initiatives of the 2008 election season and has helped turn the need for education reform from a low-priority campaign issue into one of the Obama Administration&#8217;s top policy priorities.&#8211;&#8220;Final Report from Strong American Schools&#8221; e-mail from Roy Romer and Marc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-qG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}