{"id":339,"date":"2009-08-26T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-08-26T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T16:41:23","slug":"sat-scores-on-the-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/339\/sat-scores-on-the-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"SAT Scores on the Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125121641858657345.html\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>WSJ<\/em><\/a>, SAT scores dropped this year.\u00a0 From the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many observers Tuesday viewed the flat results of recent years as discouraging in light of a more than 25-year effort to improve U.S. education. &#8216;This is a nearly unrelenting tale of woe and disappointment,&#8217; said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. &#8216;If there&#8217;s any good news here, I can&#8217;t find it.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s because there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=205\" target=\"_blank\">absolutely no correlation<\/a> between spending more money on public education and output.\u00a0 The public school system, like any other monopoly, operates at a high cost and typically produces mediocre results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the WSJ, SAT scores dropped this year.\u00a0 From the story: &#8220;Many observers Tuesday viewed the flat results of recent years as discouraging in light of a more than 25-year effort to improve U.S. education. &#8216;This is a nearly unrelenting tale of woe and disappointment,&#8217; said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,66,65],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-education","tag-monopoly","tag-sat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}