{"id":896,"date":"2016-02-11T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/professor-thomas-charts-reform-insanity\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:39","slug":"professor-thomas-charts-reform-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-thomas-charts-reform-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Thomas charts reform \u2018insanity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4673\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4673\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4673 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/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><p id=\"caption-attachment-4673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Furman education professor Paul Thomas has created an \u201cinsanity chart\u201d that shows the problems facing public schools and the approach taken to fix it by the \u201cno excuses\u201d brand of school reform.\u00a0 Thomas\u2019 chart was first published on the <em>Schools Matter<\/em> blog and then reprinted on <em>The Washington Post<\/em> blog, \u201cThe Answer Sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2012\/10\/30\/reform-insanity-in-a-single-chart\/\">Visit the Washington Post blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Furman education professor Paul Thomas has created an \u201cinsanity chart\u201d that shows the problems facing public schools and the approach taken to fix it by the \u201cno excuses\u201d brand of school reform.\u00a0 Thomas\u2019 chart was first published on the\u00a0<em>Schools Matter<\/em> blog and then reprinted on\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em> blog, \u201cThe Answer Sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}