{"id":3618,"date":"2011-07-25T05:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2011-09-18T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:43:39","slug":"where-is-the-status-quo-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Where is the status quo any more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting tired of people complaining about a shibboleth they call &#8220;the defender of the status quo.&#8221; Be forewarned: if you blithely talk in my presence about &#8220;the status quo&#8221; in K-12 schooling, I will be sorely tempted to kick you in the shins. <strong>What <\/strong>status quo?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the past three years, real per-pupil spending in schools has declined in Florida and (I would guess) most states. During and since the Lesser Depression, declining funding and annual layoff notices comprise the status quo.<\/li>\n<li>For the past ten years, there has been a federal mandate for annual high-stakes testing in seven out of 12 grades. High-stakes testing is the status quo.<\/li>\n<li>For the past twenty years, there has been the creation and dramatic growth of quasi-non-governmental (or quango) schools we call charter schools. Charters are concentrated in large cities, some of which have been the focus of efforts to replace locally-governed public schools with charter schools (Chicago, New York, New Orleans, and Washington, DC). In a large number of cities, the growth of charter schools is the status quo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little grumpy about this, so I figured I&#8217;d give some fair warning publicly before I start bruising any tibias, virtually or in real life. Reference to the imaginary &#8220;status quo&#8221; is just intellectual laziness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Larry Cuban&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/larrycuban.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/09\/the-status-quo-is-always-changing\/\">blog entry September 9<\/a> made a similar point. As usual, he was gentler than I am (or at least didn&#8217;t threaten to kick shins).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting tired of people complaining about a shibboleth they call &#8220;the defender of the status quo.&#8221; Be forewarned: if you blithely talk in my presence about &#8220;the status quo&#8221; in K-12 schooling, I will be sorely tempted to kick you in the shins. What status quo? For the past three years, real per-pupil spending [&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-3618","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-Wm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","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=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}