{"id":72396,"date":"2019-10-14T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72396"},"modified":"2019-10-15T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T22:12:35","slug":"beware-leftists-talking-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72396","title":{"rendered":"Beware Leftists Talking &#8220;Conversations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2010, Governor Dayton pledged to make education his top priority.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Walz did the same<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And after the spending of billions of dollars &#8211; much of it extracted with the same exploitive gaslighting and logrolling that were the calling cards of both Dayton and Walz&#8217;s gubernatorial races &#8211; the results are&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/as-test-scores-drop-minnesota-educators-seek-a-new-conversation-about-math\/562930882\/?fbclid=IwAR3vjB7uFSnFWheuW0jIa8xbbgLcc8GrTU1MU6hBaxR6Dz6dTVWOwf3vYnk\">predictable<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Math scores on the biggest statewide exam have plummeted for six straight years, troubling some education officials and teachers \u2014 and prompting deep discussions about how to teach math in a more holistic way.<br>Last year, just 55% of students met state standards on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, or MCAs, a slide of six percentage points in just over a decade. The decline spans all racial groups, and has diverged from the trend in reading scores, which have largely remained flat.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A smart government and bureaucracy would think in terms of, perhaps, inviting different people to the &#8220;conversation&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, Governor Dayton pledged to make education his top priority. In 2018, Walz did the same And after the spending of billions of dollars &#8211; much of it extracted with the same exploitive gaslighting and logrolling that were the calling cards of both Dayton and Walz&#8217;s gubernatorial races &#8211; the results are&#8230; &#8230;well, predictable: [&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-72396","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\/72396","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=72396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72401,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396\/revisions\/72401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}