{"id":788,"date":"2016-02-11T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-piece-on-education-featured-in-washington-post-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:35","slug":"professor-thomas-piece-on-education-featured-in-washington-post-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-piece-on-education-featured-in-washington-post-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas piece on education featured in Washington Post blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4113\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4113 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/paul-thomas.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-4113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the center of the school reform debate is the role that poverty plays in student achievement.\u00a0 Furman education professor wrote about the issue for the DailyKos.com website, which was then reprinted on The Washington Post blog, \u201cThe Answer Sheet.\u201d The blog is by education reporter Valerie Strauss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/post\/is-poverty-destiny-ideology-vs-evidence-in-school-reform\/2012\/09\/18\/cf121d2e-0201-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_blog.html#pagebreak\">Read the blog post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of the school reform debate is the role that poverty plays in student achievement.\u00a0 Furman education professor wrote about the issue for the DailyKos.com website, which was then reprinted on The Washington Post blog, \u201cThe Answer Sheet.\u201d The blog is by education reporter Valerie Strauss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}