{"id":19642,"date":"2013-11-04T06:41:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T06:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-try-to-teach-my-students-to-balance-such\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T06:41:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T06:41:49","slug":"i-try-to-teach-my-students-to-balance-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-try-to-teach-my-students-to-balance-such\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I try to teach my students to balance such complexities. But many of the smartest and best have learned the Lexile model too well. They\u2019ve long been rewarded for getting \u201cthe point\u201d of language that makes \u201ca parade of its complexity,\u201d and they\u2019ve not been shown that our capacity to manage ambiguity without reducing it enables us to be thinkers rather than mere ideologues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/115393\/common-core-standards-make-mockery-novels-complexity\">Blaine Greteman<\/a> in <em>The New Republic<\/em>.\u00a0<strong>Federal Bureaucrats Declare \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 More Complex Than \u2018The Grapes of Wrath\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Common Core\u2019s absurd new reading guidelines<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to teach my students to balance such complexities. But many of the smartest and best have learned the Lexile model too well. They\u2019ve long been rewarded for getting \u201cthe point\u201d of language that makes \u201ca parade of its complexity,\u201d and they\u2019ve not been shown that our capacity to manage ambiguity without reducing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-56O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}