{"id":4292,"date":"2016-01-22T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/21\/thomas-sounds-off-on-educational-opportunity-vs-accountability\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:20","slug":"thomas-sounds-off-on-educational-opportunity-vs-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/thomas-sounds-off-on-educational-opportunity-vs-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas sounds off on educational opportunity vs. accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman education professor Dr. Paul Thomas spars with editors of <em>The State<\/em> who, in a Jan. 7 piece, say school accountability should not be abandoned with the dismantling of No Child Left Behind. Thomas says education reform in South Carolina should be based on equity of opportunity, not accountability since \u201cthe greatest predictor of high or low rankings is wealth or poverty.\u201d He says, \u201cWithout adopting a policy that deals directly with stable jobs \u2026, health care, child care and an equitable criminal-justice system, our schools will continue to struggle.\u201d Read more in an opinion piece he wrote for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article55885295.html\">The State<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman education professor Dr. Paul Thomas spars with editors of The State who, in a Jan. 7 piece, say school accountability should not be abandoned with the dismantling of No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}