{"id":7988,"date":"2019-02-04T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/public-education\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:18:46","slug":"public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/public-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What Finnish schools can teach S.C. educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Pickens County Schools<\/span> Superintendent Danny Merck writes an opinion piece in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/02\/03\/opinon-what-s-c-educators-can-learn-schools-finland\/2719476002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> about what he learned when he visited schools in Finland as part of a fact-finding program sponsored by Public Education Partners, Furman Department of Education and the Riley Institute at Furman. Merck distills his takeaway into four simple principles: build more, feed all, test less, and play ball. His views were also picked up by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/state\/south-carolina\/article225504940.html\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickens County Schools Superintendent Danny Merck writes an opinion piece in The Greenville News about what he learned when he visited schools in Finland as part of a fact-finding program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,28,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","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=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}