{"id":581,"date":"2006-06-12T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=581"},"modified":"2006-06-12T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T16:55:54","slug":"a-new-metaphor-for-school-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"A new metaphor for school reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to the artists of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmsfeatures.com\/tmsfeatures\/servlet\/com.featureserv.util.Download?file=20060612cssho-a-p.jpg&#038;code=cssho\">today&#8217;s Shoe comic strip<\/a>, who provide a wonderful metaphor for school reform (though today&#8217;s strip is not about schooling).  You try to avoid quick fixes, you&#8217;re in it for the long haul, you try to make adjustments along the way, even though you know it&#8217;s expensive, the whole thing is traumatic, and often when you&#8217;re done, someone else tells you you&#8217;re out of date and need to start all over again.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just like remodeling your kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to the artists of today&#8217;s Shoe comic strip, who provide a wonderful metaphor for school reform (though today&#8217;s strip is not about schooling). You try to avoid quick fixes, you&#8217;re in it for the long haul, you try to make adjustments along the way, even though you know it&#8217;s expensive, the whole thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-581","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-9n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}