{"id":5287,"date":"2012-03-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2012-03-20T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:52:07","slug":"socrates-needs-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/01\/socrates-needs-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Socrates “Needs Improvement”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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wallyg \/ Flickr<\/p>

Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David<\/p><\/div>\n

What’s Socrates’ value-added score, and would he be able to keep his job?<\/p>\n

Probably not, according to a humorous post at a ASCD, the nation’s largest curriculum organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the clever finish:<\/p>\n

The results were posted in the Agora for all to see \u00a0the quality and performance of their teacher. \u00a0\u00a0Socrates failed.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0He simply spent too much time asking them to think.\u00a0 \u00a0A walk-through evaluation by his supervisor (undisclosed), determined that \u201c sometimes Socrates\u2019s \u00a0students meander through endless dialogues examining challenging questions that do not have one right answer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clarification: This post was updated to change the identification of ASCD, which is a curriculum organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s Socrates’ value-added score, and would he be able to keep his job? Probably not, according to a humorous post at a ASCD, the nation’s largest curriculum organization. Here’s the clever finish: The results were posted in the Agora for all to see \u00a0the quality and performance of their teacher. \u00a0\u00a0Socrates failed.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0He simply spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[14,1119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}