{"id":322,"date":"2011-08-08T06:32:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post322"},"modified":"2011-08-13T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:22:31","slug":"the-myth-of-the-extraordinary-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post322","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the Extraordinary Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/desks.jpg\" title=\"Desks\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/desks.jpg\" title=\"Desks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6686061823e5c010554dbac83ddb04e4.jpg\" alt=\"Desks\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/6686061823e5c010554dbac83ddb04e4.jpg\" height=\"87\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great article from Los Angeles Times about the continuing challenges of teaching&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exerpt:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to work as hard as I can to be an excellent teacher, but  as a country we have to admit that I&#8217;ll never be excellent if we  continue to slash education budgets and cut teachers, which is what&#8217;s  actually happening in California despite all our talk of excellence,  particularly in schools that serve poor children. Until we stop that,  we&#8217;ll never have equal education in this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the rest of this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-herman-class-size-20110731,0,3910343.story\">click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great article from Los Angeles Times about the continuing challenges of teaching&#8230; Exerpt: I&#8217;m willing to work as hard as I can to be an excellent teacher, but as a country we have to admit that I&#8217;ll never be excellent if we continue to slash education budgets and cut teachers, which is what&#8217;s actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-articles","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}