{"id":5658,"date":"2005-10-27T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2005-10-27T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T13:23:23","slug":"i-love-so-called-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5658","title":{"rendered":"I LOVE SO-CALLED &#8220;EXPERTS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An otherwise decent <a href=\"http:\/\/live.psu.edu\/story\/14051\">piece<\/a> from Penn State ends with this bit of tripe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the once-illegal homeschooling trend is indisputably on the rise, Marshall &#8212; while applauding those families who teach their children well &#8212; remains concerned that there may be a societal price paid for this movement. &#8220;For these families to dismiss opportunities which can perhaps best be provided through the educational agency of school is a tragic loss which affects everyone who cares about civic America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>J. Daniel Marshall is professor of education in the College of Education, and can be reached at jdm13@psu.edu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a coward!  He&#8217;s so unsure of his position that he has to hedge with &#8220;perhaps,&#8221; yet it&#8217;s still a &#8220;tragic loss&#8221; for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An otherwise decent piece from Penn State ends with this bit of tripe: While the once-illegal homeschooling trend is indisputably on the rise, Marshall &#8212; while applauding those families who teach their children well &#8212; remains concerned that there may be a societal price paid for this movement. &#8220;For these families to dismiss opportunities which [&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\/5658"}],"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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}