{"id":398,"date":"2005-12-19T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=398"},"modified":"2005-12-19T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T15:20:45","slug":"121205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"12\/12\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed Christine Lee, who works for the non-profit Seeds of Literacy Adult Education Program in Cleveland.  She said endemic to the inner city, students sometimes fall through the cracks when it comes to literacy.  That is, they sometimes only learn to read at rudimentary levels, but somehow are still able to make it from grade to grade.  One of her suppositions is that at the larger schools in Cleveland (and there are many), the student-teacher ratio is big, accounting for a significant measure of student &#8220;anonymity.&#8221;  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Several years ago, I interviewed a former school board president in Gallup, New Mexico.  Her belief was that each classroom teacher needed aids to help with discipline, extra paper work, help with lesson plans&#8230;  so the teachers had more time to, well, teach.  Common sense says with more aids, it&#8217;s doubtful as many students would fall through the literacy cracks, or other cracks as well&#8230;  *I&#8217;m just reading a book about the late Robert F. Kennedy.  In one of his speeches he said he envisioned an America where there were: &#8220;more books than bombs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed Christine Lee, who works for the non-profit Seeds of Literacy Adult Education Program in Cleveland. She said endemic to the inner city, students sometimes fall through the cracks when it comes to literacy. That is, they sometimes only learn <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=398\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}