{"id":48508,"date":"2015-11-02T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48508"},"modified":"2015-11-01T21:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T04:58:33","slug":"beyond-measure-rescuing-an-overscheduled-overtested-underestimated-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/02\/beyond-measure-rescuing-an-overscheduled-overtested-underestimated-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/8\/items\/uprising_2015_11_02\/Vicki_Abeles_2015_11_02.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/8\/items\/uprising_2015_11_02\/uprising_2015_11_02.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Vicki Abeles<\/strong>, filmmaker whose 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere exposed the detrimental nature of high-stakes testing in public schools. Her new film Beyond Measure, shares its name with her new book Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Obama in late October, made a surprise announcement on the White House Facebook page against high-stakes testing in public schools. The issue of high-stakes testing, which his administration and his predecessor&#8217;s administration, strongly embraced, has become a central focus of educational activism by parents, teachers, and students. <\/p>\n<p>Visit the following websites for more information: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racetonowhere.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.RaceToNowhere.com<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondmeasurefilm.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.BeyondMeasureFilm.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Vicki Abeles, filmmaker whose 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere exposed the detrimental nature of high-stakes testing in public schools. Her new film Beyond Measure, shares its name with her new book Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation. President Obama in late October, made a surprise announcement on the White House Facebook page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48512,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions\/48512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}