{"id":875,"date":"2007-02-20T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=875"},"modified":"2007-02-20T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:54:48","slug":"politicians-logic-on-school-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Politician&#8217;s logic on school reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the St. Pete Times <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\/2007\/02\/split_up_boys_a.html\">Gradebook<\/a>, the Florida House education committee chair is interested in mandating single-sex classrooms and uniforms for low-rated schools: &#8220;Something has to be done to improve D and F schools. What we&#8217;re doing now is not enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As fans of <em>Yes, Prime Minister<\/em>&#8216;s Antony Jay would recognize, this is politician&#8217;s logic: Something must be done; this is something; therefore, we must do it. Even if there is solid research that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/wcpa\/top3mset\/58abdb1195e7ea4aa19afeb4da09e526.html\">uniform policies are only symbolic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the St. Pete Times Gradebook, the Florida House education committee chair is interested in mandating single-sex classrooms and uniforms for low-rated schools: &#8220;Something has to be done to improve D and F schools. What we&#8217;re doing now is not enough.&#8221; As fans of Yes, Prime Minister&#8216;s Antony Jay would recognize, this is politician&#8217;s [&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-875","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-e7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}