{"id":3044,"date":"2011-01-07T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2011-01-07T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:32:37","slug":"michael-omalleys-take-on-virginia-history-textbook-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s take on Virginia history textbook errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The SOLs are the problem. They combine the huffing and blowing of conservatives, who want measurable fact-based standards, with the wheedling of liberals, who want \u201cinclusion.\u201d The result trains kids away from argument and reason and towards empty memorization.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/theaporetic.com\/?p=1416'>Those VA History textbooks \u2013 The Aporetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad standards aren&#8217;t the entire problem, but incoherent social studies standards are the norm and reinforce older patterns of bad text writing. Go read the entire blog entry for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SOLs are the problem. They combine the huffing and blowing of conservatives, who want measurable fact-based standards, with the wheedling of liberals, who want \u201cinclusion.\u201d The result trains kids away from argument and reason and towards empty memorization. via Those VA History textbooks \u2013 The Aporetic. Bad standards aren&#8217;t the entire problem, but incoherent [&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-3044","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-N6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","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=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}