{"id":1755,"date":"2009-11-01T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2009-11-01T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T13:05:20","slug":"ready-made-dissertation-topic-on-local-school-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Ready-made dissertation topic on local school politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone looking for a dissertation topic on school policy or politics can now rest easy: read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/localnews\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2009\/10\/31\/a1a_school_flop_1101.html\">Palm Beach Post&#8217;s description<\/a> of a local reform effort that blew up in the face of a superintendent. You&#8217;ve got everything in there from the data-driven mantra to parental backlash to odd bedfellows with the teachers union and coalition politics. I have been watching the story unfold for a few months and suspecting that there&#8217;s been a lot more beyond the headlines. I want to read the book on this, so get cracking, somebody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone looking for a dissertation topic on school policy or politics can now rest easy: read the Palm Beach Post&#8217;s description of a local reform effort that blew up in the face of a superintendent. You&#8217;ve got everything in there from the data-driven mantra to parental backlash to odd bedfellows with the teachers union and [&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-1755","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-sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}