{"id":1564,"date":"2003-07-23T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2003-07-23T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T15:35:38","slug":"delaware-student-testing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"DELAWARE STUDENT TESTING PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlyswygert.com\/archives\/000125.html\">Kim Swygert<\/a> caught a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/newsjournal\/local\/2003\/07\/23highstakestests.html\">News-Journal<\/a> article about the DSTP and how it has affected one 3rd grader.  Respondng to a principal who claimed that students and adults don&#8217;t respond well to the threat of failure, Kim pulls off a <b>great<\/b> line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s funny. Most adults I know understand, and respond to, the idea that punishment for bad performance is inherent in every part of our lives, whether we live in the collegiate, graduate, and post-graduate universes. Perhaps if you&#8217;re a school principal in Delaware, you face no punishment for slacking off, but the real world demands that you accept punishment if you don&#8217;t perform well in your college classes, your job, or your marriage. If you don&#8217;t believe this, your professor, your boss, or your spouse&#8217;s divorce lawyer will be happy to explain it to you. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Swygert caught a good News-Journal article about the DSTP and how it has affected one 3rd grader. Respondng to a principal who claimed that students and adults don&#8217;t respond well to the threat of failure, Kim pulls off a great line: That&#8217;s funny. Most adults I know understand, and respond to, the idea that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}