{"id":142,"date":"2008-02-10T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T00:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-02-10T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T00:58:48","slug":"wphs-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"WPHS: Back in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/education\/20080208_West_Phila__High_begins_a_turnaround.html\">here<\/a>, where Ms. Snyder seems to be offering the &#8220;turnaround&#8221; story while simultaneously describing a baseline of trouble that hasn&#8217;t really changed.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess what bothered me is that a few students doing a few interesting assignments &#8212; something that has always been going on at West an every other comprehensive high school &#8212; is somehow evidence of a turnaround.   Each of these schools has a staff where somewhere between twenty and forty percent of the faculty is doing a good job.  Some of them collect media backers who return to their rooms every year or so for a piece; others toil on with minimal recognition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird article here, where Ms. Snyder seems to be offering the &#8220;turnaround&#8221; story while simultaneously describing a baseline of trouble that hasn&#8217;t really changed. I guess what bothered me is that a few students doing a few interesting assignments &#8212; something that has always been going on at West an every other comprehensive high school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WPHS: Back in the News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}