{"id":1496,"date":"2020-02-06T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?page_id=1496"},"modified":"2020-02-06T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T14:18:04","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-sky-is-falling-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky is Falling! (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November of 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/failing-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"failing schools myth (opens in a new tab)\">failing schools myth<\/a> received another huge boost &#8230; this time from the very highest levels. Responding to NAEP proficiency scores, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said,\u201c \u201cThe numbers are reason for deep concern. This country has a student achievement crisis.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She later added, &#8220;Our nation\u2019s report card shows that two-thirds of American students can\u2019t read at grade level. Two out of three!&#8221; This statement not only shows a fundamental lack of understanding about how to interpret test scores, but is yet another indication of the Secretary&#8217;s extreme bias against public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2019\/11\/01\/common-mistake-betsy-devos-made-about-new-naep-scores-other-problems-with-her-sky-is-falling-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"This article (opens in a new tab)\">This article<\/a> takes an extensive look into the issue. It&#8217;s well worth the read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November of 2019, the failing schools myth received another huge boost &#8230; this time from the very highest levels. Responding to NAEP proficiency scores, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said,\u201c \u201cThe numbers are reason for deep concern. This country has a student achievement crisis.\u201d She later added, &#8220;Our nation\u2019s report card shows that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1496\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}