{"id":7628,"date":"2018-08-21T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/21\/struggling-to-read\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:12:29","slug":"struggling-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/struggling-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina holds back about 354 third-graders who struggle to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Education Professor Paul Thomas is quoted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/south-carolina-holds-back-about-third-graders-who-struggle-to\/article_157bc984-9b14-11e8-b29d-cfacebd24bc5.html\"><em><strong>Post and Courier<\/strong><\/em><\/a> story about more than 350 South Carolina third-graders who were held back because of reading deficiencies.\u00a0\u201cThree hundred and fifty-four students retained is still 354 too many,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cAs long as we use tests as our primary or sometimes sole indicator on what to do with students, we don\u2019t know how many false positives and false negatives are out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Education Professor Paul Thomas is quoted in a Post and Courier story about more than 350 South Carolina third-graders who were held back because of reading deficiencies.\u00a0\u201cThree hundred and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}