{"id":170,"date":"2020-10-19T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2020-11-25T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T23:19:07","slug":"problem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem\/Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problem I have been studying is high stakes standardized testing in the United States, more specifically New York City. Parents and educators have found that these tests have decreased a students ability to truly learn material. Over-emphasis on standardized tests stresses students out because of the need to perform well. New York City has a large population with many people of different socioeconomic statuses and these inequities carry over into an unequal dynamic in the school system. As a result, administrators push for standardized tests in hopes that they will create an even playing field. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem I have been studying is high stakes standardized testing in the United States, more specifically New York City. Parents and educators have found that these tests have decreased a students ability to truly learn material. Over-emphasis on standardized tests stresses students out because of the need to perform well. New York City has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-arobert2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}