{"id":264,"date":"2007-01-23T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/perspective-on-education"},"modified":"2007-01-23T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:12:56","slug":"perspective-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most popular nonfiction book of 1957 was an attack on American education standards called <em>Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Read<\/em>, warning us that we were falling dangerously behind the rest of the world..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Times-Thunderbolt-Kid-Memoir\/dp\/076791936X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1169568705\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-6138427-3586414?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><em>The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid<\/em><\/a> by Bill Bryson<\/p>\n<p>From this data point we can either deduce that the crisis in American education is continuing or that the perception that there is a crisis in American education is continuing.\u00a0 Since America did quite well in the last fifty years I have to conclude that the issue is one of perception.\u00a0 Which leads me to believe that the current set of worries about education are at best overstated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most popular nonfiction book of 1957 was an attack on American education standards called Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Read, warning us that we were falling dangerously behind the rest of the world..&#8221; From The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson From this data point we can either deduce that the crisis [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}