{"id":1569,"date":"2004-02-20T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/speaking_of_bac\/"},"modified":"2004-02-20T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T16:41:00","slug":"speaking_of_bac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/speaking_of_bac\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Backpedaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With withering criticism from states left with the task of implementing the No Child Left Behind Act but insufficient funds, the administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A56123-2004Feb19.html\">announced easing of standards <\/a>yesterday.  With 28 percent of schools failing the act\u2019s targets, Education Secretary Rod Paige said requirements will be relaxed for students who speak English as a second language (ESL students, in the educational vernacular).  The Washington Post also reports that Paige will announce a \u201cmore flexible interpretation\u201d of what defines a \u201cfully qualified teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue of underperforming schools is addressed in a book I\u2019m now reading:  The 2% Solution.  (See my reading list left column.)  Liberals will like Matthew Miller saying that a lot more money is needed for teacher salaries.  Conservatives will like Miller\u2019s voucher ideas and his call for doing away with teacher tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With withering criticism from states left with the task of implementing the No Child Left Behind Act but insufficient funds, the administration announced easing of standards yesterday. With 28 percent of schools failing the act\u2019s targets, Education Secretary Rod Paige said requirements will be relaxed for students who speak English as a second language (ESL&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/speaking_of_bac\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}