{"id":1553,"date":"2020-03-20T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2021-02-26T05:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T05:02:20","slug":"state-testing-vs-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/state-testing-vs-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"State Testing vs. COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pressure is growing on U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, to grant a nationwide waiver for state standardized testing required under ESSA. Since these tests are extremely &#8220;high-stakes&#8221; in many states (impacting everything from grade advancement to graduation to funding), many educators are deeply concerned about the huge negative impact that this requirement might have on their students this year. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"This article (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/42cab10b0d64199d9b27fa9d591f446b\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> is an update on the current situation and what may lie ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is growing on U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, to grant a nationwide waiver for state standardized testing required under ESSA. Since these tests are extremely &#8220;high-stakes&#8221; in many states (impacting everything from grade advancement to graduation to funding), many educators are deeply concerned about the huge negative impact that this requirement might have on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199,25,54,198,197,125],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-betsy-devos","tag-bill-morelan","tag-covid-19","tag-essa","tag-state-testing","tag-usa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}