{"id":960,"date":"2016-02-11T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/dr-thomas-writes-about-education-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:35:50","slug":"dr-thomas-writes-about-education-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/dr-thomas-writes-about-education-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thomas writes about education reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5064\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/paul-thomas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5064 lazyload\" title=\"paul-thomas\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/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-5064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed for the <em>Charlotte Observer<\/em>, Furman education professor Paul Thomas writes that accountability-based education reformers persist in calling for new standards, more tests, and misguided assaults on teachers, although public school failures have nothing to do with a lack of accountability or the quality of standards and tests.\u00a0 Thomas draws his conclusions after 18 years teaching high school English and another 11 years in higher education at Furman, where he works with teachers and future teachers across the Upstate of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2012\/12\/09\/3713152\/what-real-school-reform-looks.html\">Read the op-ed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed for the\u00a0<em>Charlotte Observer<\/em>, Furman education professor Paul Thomas writes that accountability-based education reformers persist in calling for new standards, more tests, and misguided assaults on teachers, although public school failures have nothing to do with a lack of accountability or the quality of standards and tests. Thomas draws his conclusions after 18 years teaching high school English and another 11 years teaching at Furman.<\/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-960","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\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}