{"id":1688,"date":"2009-07-15T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T21:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-07-15T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T21:27:31","slug":"the-clinching-argument-for-national-curriculum-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"The clinching argument for national curriculum standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s do it now, before <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/juggle\/2009\/07\/14\/the-new-curriculum-culture-wars-history-class\/\">total nuts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coreknowledge.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/an-unhelpful-development\/\">from Texas<\/a> take over!&#8221; To be truthful, there have also been nuts in New York, Florida, California, and other places (and of various flavors) where a state&#8217;s size gives enormous temptations to warp the textbook approval process as leverage for controlling the entire country&#8217;s text market. That&#8217;s not a 100% clinching argument for some national standards, but it&#8217;s <i>very<\/i> tempting to strike while the people holding the irons are definitely not hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s do it now, before total nuts from Texas take over!&#8221; To be truthful, there have also been nuts in New York, Florida, California, and other places (and of various flavors) where a state&#8217;s size gives enormous temptations to warp the textbook approval process as leverage for controlling the entire country&#8217;s text market. That&#8217;s not [&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":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}