{"id":266,"date":"2017-04-28T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/?p=266"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:57:19","slug":"a-freakonomics-view-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/a-freakonomics-view-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Freakonomics View of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/freakonomics-620x620.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/freakonomics-620x620.png 620w, https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/freakonomics-620x620-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/freakonomics-620x620-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nIf you aren\u2019t into podcasts, you might have missed the recent rebroadcast episode of Freakonomics Radio entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/podcast\/is-americas-education-problem-really-just-a-teacher-problem-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is America\u2019s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The discussion runs the gamut from the amazing success of the Finnish Educational System to the ways in which teachers aren\u2019t valued enough in American culture.\u00a0 There are a number of interesting ideas profiled on the program, and it also offers a glimpse into the fascinating Relay Graduate School of Education, which employs some of the same principles that make us all swoony when we talk about Finland.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on the title to access the podcast from your laptop or desktop, or you can download Stitcher or Podbean or a similar podcast app and search for Freakonomics Radio, click on \u201cfeed\u201d and scroll down to episode 188. If you have an iPhone, you have a podcast app pre-loaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you aren\u2019t into podcasts, you might have missed the recent rebroadcast episode of Freakonomics Radio entitled \u201cIs America\u2019s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?\u201d The discussion runs the gamut from the amazing success of the Finnish Educational System to the ways in which teachers aren\u2019t valued enough in American culture.\u00a0 There are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}