{"id":79,"date":"2016-02-11T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-weighs-in-on-education\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:28:12","slug":"professor-thomas-weighs-in-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-weighs-in-on-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas weighs in on education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-512 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/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>Education professor Paul Thomas was featured in two different discussions on <em>The New York Times<\/em> \u201cRoom for Debate\u201d website\u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2011\/05\/30\/testing-students-to-grade-teachers\/avoiding-the-poverty-issue\">\u201cTesting Students to Grade Teachers: What Do We Know about Using Student Achievement Tests to Judge Teacher Performance?\u201d<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2011\/07\/10\/how-to-improve-summer-school\/education-needs-to-break-with-tradition\">\u201cHow to Improve Summer School.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education professor Paul Thomas was featured in two different discussions on The New York Times \u201cRoom for Debate\u201d website\u2014\u201cTesting Students to Grade Teachers: What Do We Know about Using Student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}