{"id":672,"date":"2013-06-10T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:21:02","slug":"ken-robinson-how-to-escape-educations-death-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2013\/06\/10\/ken-robinson-how-to-escape-educations-death-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Robinson: How to escape education&#8217;s death valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robinson&#8217;s observation about fixing the culture of education is correct.\u00a0 Learning is a human endeavor, not a mechanical one.\u00a0 It requires creativity on the part of teachers, and creativity cannot thrive if the education system is run on the principle that every student is the same and that standardized assessment is the key to improvement.\u00a0 As he states, standardized assessment is vital, but it shouldn&#8217;t be the organizing principle behind education systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinson&#8217;s observation about fixing the culture of education is correct.\u00a0 Learning is a human endeavor, not a mechanical one.\u00a0 It requires creativity on the part of teachers, and creativity cannot thrive if the education system is run on the principle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/2013\/06\/10\/ken-robinson-how-to-escape-educations-death-valley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,278,305,25,78],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-assessment","tag-education-2","tag-ken-robinson","tag-learning","tag-ted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevincreamer.net\/panda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}