{"id":38017,"date":"2013-08-28T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38017"},"modified":"2013-08-28T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T13:13:34","slug":"why-johnny-kant-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38017","title":{"rendered":"Why Johnny Kant Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the school year almost upon us, Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/08\/27\/education\/mca-reading-score-decline\">new standardized 5th Grade reading test is tougher than the old one<\/a>. Student scores dropped 20 points from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, the percentage of White Students deemed to be reading at their grade level dropped from 87% to 65%, Black Students dropped from 57% to 32% (it\u2019s not clear from the article whether White includes Asian and Hispanic as only two categories were given).<\/p>\n<p>In St. Paul, <a href=\"http:\/\/w20.education.state.mn.us\/MDEAnalytics\/\">less than half the students were at grade level <\/a>in math, reading and science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgovernmentspending.com\/minnesota_state_spending.html&quot;\">30% of all state and local spending goes to education<\/a> but half our kids are below the standards for their grade level. We\u2019re not getting our money\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Education Minnesota is a little like the Samoan Lawyer in <em>Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; <\/em>to paraphrase, it&#8217;s not important that you know what you&#8217;re paying for, or if you understand what you&#8217;re getting for your money; it&#8217;s merely important that you pay promptly and in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the school year almost upon us, Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The new standardized 5th Grade reading test is tougher than the old one. Student scores dropped 20 points from last year. Statewide, the percentage of White Students deemed to be reading at their grade level dropped from 87% to 65%, Black Students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38019,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38017\/revisions\/38019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}