{"id":4842,"date":"2009-05-07T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:17:14","slug":"oh_goody_i_hear_theres_a_sale_on_bookcooks_going_on_downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/oh_goody_i_hear_theres_a_sale_on_bookcooks_going_on_downtown.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh Goody, I Hear There&#8217;s A Sale On Bookcooks Going On Downtown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/no_spurious_claim_of_success_left_behind.html\">when you need help in the kitchen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05072009\/news\/regionalnews\/city_students_reading_scores_jump_by_11__168078.htm\">it helps to have a good bookcook at hand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The percentage of third through eighth graders in the city&#8217;s public schools who scored proficiently on state reading tests catapulted an incredible 11.2% upward since last year &#8212; from 57.6 percent to 68.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the largest gains were made in the city&#8217;s long-troubled middle schools &#8212; led by a nearly 20 percent jump since last year in the number of sixth graders meeting state benchmarks, from 52.7 percent to 72.6 percent.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because when you need help in the kitchen, it helps to have a good bookcook at hand: The percentage of third through eighth graders in the city&#8217;s public schools who scored proficiently on state reading tests catapulted an incredible 11.2% upward since last year &#8212; from 57.6 percent to 68.8 percent. Surprisingly, the largest gains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_call_bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}