{"id":1073,"date":"2012-02-27T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:16:27","slug":"consult-the-education-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/consult-the-education-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult the education professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editors,<\/p>\n<p>I write regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/o.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2017598928_democrats26m.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article about education reform politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an entire discipline of professionals who study what works and what doesn&#8217;t work in education. \u00a0They have done research for decades in every state and all over the world, and they largely agree about what improves student outcomes and what doesn&#8217;t. I am talking about education professors, people with PhDs studying schools, teaching, and learning.<\/p>\n<p>In your lengthy article about education reform, and in the larger conversation about these issues, the people who actually know what they&#8217;re talking about \u2014 education professors \u2014 are not consulted or quoted. \u00a0Instead it&#8217;s just a bunch of donors and politicians with &#8220;opinions&#8221;. \u00a0Can you help us move towards a more fact-based conversation by interviewing the experts the next time you report on education reform (or really any issue)?<\/p>\n<p>Robin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editors, I write regarding a recent article about education reform politics. There is an entire discipline of professionals who study what works and what doesn&#8217;t work in education. \u00a0They have done research for decades in every state and all over the world, and they largely agree about what improves student outcomes and what doesn&#8217;t. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/consult-the-education-professors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consult the education professors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}