{"id":524,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-writes-for-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:17","slug":"professor-thomas-writes-for-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-writes-for-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas writes for The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2670\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paul-thomas1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2670 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/paul-thomas1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 138px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 138\/200;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a piece for <em>The Atlantic<\/em> magazine, Furman education professor Paul Thomas writes that \u201cgovernors and presidents are no better suited to run schools than they are to run construction sites, and it&#8217;s time our education system reflected that fact.\u201d\u00a0 Thomas was writing about public education in the U.S. as part of the magazine\u2019s series on \u201cAmerica the Fixable\u201d under the heading of \u201cThe Broken Promise of American Education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/04\/politics-and-education-dont-mix\/256303\/\">Read \u201cPolitics and Education Don\u2019t Mix\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece for\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em> magazine, Furman education professor Paul Thomas writes that \u201cgovernors and presidents are no better suited to run schools than they are to run construction sites, and it&#8217;s time our education system reflected that fact.\u201d\u00a0 Thomas was writing about public education in the U.S. as part of the magazine\u2019s series on \u201cAmerica the Fixable\u201d under the heading of \u201cThe Broken Promise of American Education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","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\/524","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}