{"id":601,"date":"2006-06-23T12:57:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=601"},"modified":"2006-06-23T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T16:57:32","slug":"its-graduation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s graduation week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more belated entry in the grad-rate report sweepstakes: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsba.org\">National School Board Association<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforpubliceducation.org\/site\/c.kjJXJ5MPIwE\/b.1808145\/k.EDDF\/Graduation_rates_What_do_they_mean_and_what_can_we_do.htm\">Center for Public Education guide on graduation rates<\/a>, released yesterday. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.org\">Andrew Rotherham<\/a>.)  Sometime overnight, my brain convinced me that this slew of reports was distributed over two weeks, not one.  But it really has been just one week.<br \/>\nAnd on the way back from a music lesson today, we listened to Garrison Keillor&#8217;s 1998 &#8220;Graduation&#8221; (one of his News from Lake Wobegone stories, in a collection purchased on Father&#8217;s Day, last Sunday). How appropriate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more belated entry in the grad-rate report sweepstakes: the National School Board Association&#8216;s Center for Public Education guide on graduation rates, released yesterday. (Hat tip: Andrew Rotherham.) Sometime overnight, my brain convinced me that this slew of reports was distributed over two weeks, not one. But it really has been just one week. And [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-9H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}