{"id":670,"date":"2008-08-18T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=670"},"modified":"2008-08-18T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T08:58:07","slug":"just-dont-make-it-so-they-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/670","title":{"rendered":"Just Don&#039;t Make It So They Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.anamazingmind.com\/2008\/05\/sucky-schools-how-to-repair-our.html\">Sucky Schools &#8211; How To Repair Our Education System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of good stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our schools are fact-junkies. We teach students thousands of useless facts that will be forgotten as soon as the next exam is over. Hell, usually they&#8217;re forgotten even before that, and then you see students cramming late into night, only to forget it all within 48 hours. How&#8217;s that for effective use of everyone&#8217;s time.<br \/>\n[\u2026]<br \/>\nStandardized testing is like a black hole that sucks up and annihilates any learning it gets close to. It bends the very fabric of curriculum and students&#8217; time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/15\/sucky-schools-and-how-to-repair-them\/\">sciencegeekgirl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sucky Schools &#8211; How To Repair Our Education System Lots of good stuff. Our schools are fact-junkies. We teach students thousands of useless facts that will be forgotten as soon as the next exam is over. Hell, usually they&#8217;re forgotten &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}