{"id":364,"date":"2002-09-20T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=364"},"modified":"2002-09-20T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2002-09-20T09:28:41","slug":"misleading-headline-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"MISLEADING HEADLINE OF THE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>MISLEADING HEADLINE OF THE DAY<\/b><\/i> A  Boston Globe op-ed carries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/263\/oped\/Educating_America_s_new_majority+.shtml\">this whopper:  <\/a><br \/>\n<b>Educating America&#8217;s new majority<\/b> to headline a story on the effect the Mass. accountability tests have on &#8220;minorities&#8221;.  I was intrigued as I hadn&#8217;t realized that so-called &#8220;minorities&#8221; were now in the majority.  Well, of course, they&#8217;re not.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/servlet\/QTTable?ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&#038;geo_id=01000US&#038;qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1\">these census data<\/a>, self-declared &#8220;whites&#8221; account for 73.3% (97.6% of 75.1%) of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISLEADING HEADLINE OF THE DAY A Boston Globe op-ed carries this whopper: Educating America&#8217;s new majority to headline a story on the effect the Mass. accountability tests have on &#8220;minorities&#8221;. I was intrigued as I hadn&#8217;t realized that so-called &#8220;minorities&#8221; were now in the majority. Well, of course, they&#8217;re not. According to these census data, [&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\/364"}],"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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}