{"id":800,"date":"2006-12-10T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T12:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=800"},"modified":"2006-12-10T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T12:38:53","slug":"ninth-grade-angstfor-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Ninth grade angst&#151;for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/\">St. Petersburg Times<\/a> published an entire section devoted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/webspecials06\/ninthgrade\/\">a feature on ninth grade<\/a> by reporter Ron Matus and photographer Lara Cerri. Matus and Cerri followed ninth graders in 2005-06 and did a remarkable job of earning their trust and watching several go through serious crises. I&#8217;m not done with the article, but this is one of those stories that should be read by anyone who cares about high schools and teenagers.<br \/>\nRegardless of previous kudos about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\/archives\/2006_11_26_archive.html#116477657716595537\">what had been talked about as the most important education article in the year<\/a>, I can only say, move over, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/26\/magazine\/26tough.html\">Paul Tough<\/a>. Ron Matus just ate your lunch, reporting-wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the St. Petersburg Times published an entire section devoted to a feature on ninth grade by reporter Ron Matus and photographer Lara Cerri. Matus and Cerri followed ninth graders in 2005-06 and did a remarkable job of earning their trust and watching several go through serious crises. I&#8217;m not done with the article, [&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-800","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-cU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}