{"id":6839,"date":"2011-12-08T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2011-12-08T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:40:14","slug":"moral_never_tie_your_legacy_to_school_test_scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/moral_never_tie_your_legacy_to_school_test_scores.html","title":{"rendered":"Moral: Never Tie Your Legacy To School Test Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/education\/city-schools-made-gains-national-exams-2009-a-blow-mayor-bloomberg-legacy-article-1.987955\">It will eventually bite you in the ass<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city&#8217;s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-grade reading scores have stagnated since 2003, when the Bloomberg administration reforms first took effect.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also been no significant improvement in the percentage of eighth-graders who tested &#8220;proficient&#8221; or above in math, the scores released Wednesday show.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will eventually bite you in the ass: In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city&#8217;s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009. Eighth-grade reading scores have stagnated since 2003, when the Bloomberg administration reforms first took effect. There&#8217;s also been no significant improvement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","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=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}