{"id":691,"date":"2006-08-22T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T01:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=691"},"modified":"2006-08-22T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T01:08:03","slug":"bulleted-ed-policy-sliders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Bulleted ed-policy sliders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubsearch\/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006460\">Charter-school report<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdkintl.org\/kappan\/k0609pol.htm\">PDK\/Gallup poll<\/a>? I&#8217;ve been preparing for the semester and don&#8217;t have time for a long entry on this, but here are a few quick (and idiosyncratic) perspectives on the big education news today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While the responses on the poll to <em>reform<\/em> vs. <em>alternative system<\/em> have remained somewhat consistent over the years Gallup has included the question, the responses on vouchers specifically are more volatile. My prediction: no one else pays attention to the up-and-down nature of the results.<\/li>\n<li>It looks like neither the public nor some charter-school advocates or skeptics understand what charter schools are. <\/li>\n<li>The public&nbsp;retains inconsistent views on accountability, at least regarding both expectations and mechanisms.<\/li>\n<li>This summer has been the Education Department&#8217;s Zen PR season, effectively highlighting the importance of newly-released studies by not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider these to be my gnomic utterances for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charter-school report? PDK\/Gallup poll? I&#8217;ve been preparing for the semester and don&#8217;t have time for a long entry on this, but here are a few quick (and idiosyncratic) perspectives on the big education news today: While the responses on the poll to reform vs. alternative system have remained somewhat consistent over the years Gallup has [&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":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-b9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}