{"id":3248,"date":"2014-02-19T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2014-02-19T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:32:01","slug":"more-pieces-to-the-pisa-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"More Pieces to the PISA Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0Decenber 7, 2013 VASSP blog, &#8220;Had Enough of the PISA pie?&#8221; Rick Hess&#8217; commentary in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ed Week<\/span>\u00a0, &#8220;7 Reasons Why I Don&#8217;t Care About the PISA Results&#8221; provided support and fodder for those of us who are tired of the American public education system being targeted as a failure. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASSP&#8217;s Mel Riddle, coordinator for the <strong>Principal&#8217;s Difference,<\/strong>\u00a0 has recently\u00a0entered the fray to refute the general dismal reports comparing PISA result from around the world to\u00a0the score\u00a0in our country. Using poverty levels as an\u00a0indicator to provide a more neutral &#8220;playing field&#8221;, Mel&#8217;s data comparisons put the U.S. public education PISA score in a much different position.<\/p>\n<p>You may read his blog and the PISA scores comparisons\u00a0from around the world at: <a href=\"http:\/\/nasspblogs.org\/principaldifference\/2014\/02\/pisa-its-still-poverty-not-stupid\/\">http:\/\/nasspblogs.org\/principaldifference\/2014\/02\/pisa-its-still-poverty-not-stupid\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0Decenber 7, 2013 VASSP blog, &#8220;Had Enough of the PISA pie?&#8221; Rick Hess&#8217; commentary in Ed Week\u00a0, &#8220;7 Reasons Why I Don&#8217;t Care About the PISA Results&#8221; provided support and fodder for those of us who are tired of the American public education system being targeted as a failure. \u00a0 NASSP&#8217;s Mel Riddle, coordinator &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=3248\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-pisa-scores-comparison","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}