{"id":497,"date":"2010-03-17T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:41:35","slug":"small-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Small Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading exceptional historian Jon Zimmerman&#8217;s latest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Small-Wonder-Schoolhouse-History-America\/dp\/0300123264\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1268876430&#038;sr=8-8\">Small Wonder: The Little Red School house in History and Memory<\/a>, and found the following quotes:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some of our children are paupers and some are millionaires in educational opportunity.  An American public school at the moment may connote anything from an unheated, dilapidated one-room shack, closed without further notice, to a 200-room palace whose frescoed walls, swimming pool, and air-conditioned interior a Roman emperor might envy.&#8221;     &#8211;Journalist Eunice Barnard  (p.102)  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>James Agee on a new white school in Alabama in the late 1930s:  &#8220;A recently built, windowy, &#8216;healthfully&#8217; red brick and white-trimmed structure which perfectly exemplifies the American genius for sterility, unimagination and general gutlessness in meeting any opporunity for &#8216;reform&#8217; or &#8216;improvement.'&#8221;   (p.107)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading exceptional historian Jon Zimmerman&#8217;s latest, Small Wonder: The Little Red School house in History and Memory, and found the following quotes: &#8220;Some of our children are paupers and some are millionaires in educational opportunity. An American public school at the moment may connote anything from an unheated, dilapidated one-room shack, closed without further notice, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Wonder<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","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-81","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}