{"id":519,"date":"2006-09-19T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2006\/09\/19\/social-studies-to-the-back-of-the-class\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:36:43","slug":"social-studies-to-the-back-of-the-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2006\/09\/social-studies-to-the-back-of-the-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Social studies to the back of the class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=10\">Weekend Edition Sunday<\/a> ran a story on Sept. 17 about how schools are emphasizing the importance of reading and math and leaving other subjects, social studies in particular, behind. This largely the result of NCLB-induced testing mania, which makes reading and math scores just about the only thing that matters in U.S. schools.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Risinger, former coordinator of Social Studies Education at the School of Education at Indiana<br \/>\nUniversity, discusses the problem with Liane Hansen in a segment titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6092000\">Social Studies Goes to the Back of the Class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s Weekend Edition Sunday ran a story on Sept. 17 about how schools are emphasizing the importance of reading and math and leaving other subjects, social studies in particular, behind. This largely the result of NCLB-induced testing mania, which makes reading and math scores just about the only thing that matters in U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}