{"id":1507,"date":"2016-04-07T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:58:01","slug":"1507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumped in downtown Arlington, Ohio (pop. 1,455), today.\u00a0 While passing out campaign cards, I ended up in a conversation with a local, retired teacher.\u00a0 He said he was particularly flummoxed by Federal Education Department standards as they relate to, say, the standardized tests tied to initiatives like No Child Left Behind, Common Core…<\/em>\u00a0 But even more than this, he said there was a lot of extraneous learning.\u00a0 He said, for instance, studies show that what’s learned in Algebra is hardly, if ever, used on the job later.\u00a0 “Yet we keep teaching it,” he said in an exasperated tone.\u00a0 Good point.\u00a0 It’s actually my contention that a significant portion of what is being taught these days, across the (subject) board, is extraneous. \u00a0 On the far end of this continuum are four year college degrees — the current American “gold standard” — that are chock full of courses that are exceedingly<\/em> extraneous.\u00a0 For instance, Business majors fulfilling “elective requirements” with such courses as: Intramural Recreation Methodology.<\/em>\u00a0 I mean, c’mon!<\/em>\u00a0 So these students are spending tens of thousands of bucks on, say, 40 to 60 hours of electives that aren’t directly applicable to their major.\u00a0 Meanwhile in the Third World, many youth can’t even afford the basics in high school education.\u00a0 And the money we’re wasting here, could go such a long way in helping them.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 For more on our position on education, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumped in downtown Arlington, Ohio (pop. 1,455), today.\u00a0 While passing out campaign cards, I ended up in a conversation with a local, retired teacher.\u00a0 He said he was particularly flummoxed by Federal Education Department standards as they relate to, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}