{"id":203,"date":"2005-09-28T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/28\/changing-bad-education-policy\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T22:43:50","slug":"changing-bad-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/changing-bad-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing bad education policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumforeducation.org\/news\/index.php?id=87\">The Forum for Education and Democracy<\/a> has a nice article by Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik summarizing how parents, students, and educators in New York State battled and won a victory against perhaps the most committed proponent of test-driven education in the US, New York State Education commissioner Rick Mills.<\/p>\n<p>While the outcome in NYS was limited to students in publicly supported alternative schools, this is a story of how organizing and political pressure can work to change bad education policies, which should give hope to others, like the folks in California who were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/education\/20050923-9999-1m23exam.html\">rallying against high school exit exams<\/a> over this past weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forum for Education and Democracy has a nice article by Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik summarizing how parents, students, and educators in New York State battled and won a victory against perhaps the most committed proponent of test-driven education in the US, New York State Education commissioner Rick Mills. While the outcome in NYS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}