{"id":551,"date":"2011-07-14T23:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:54:32","slug":"edge-a-ca-shun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Edge-a-ca-shun"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems any attempt talk about education is met with one of two very old arguments.\u00a0 One, and currently the stronger of the two is the “hold everyone responsible” argument.\u00a0 This “solution” takes the tack of trying to improve the quality of our children’s education by holding everyone in the chain responsible for “the results”.\u00a0 This sounds mighty sincere and attempts to at least put the blame somewhere.\u00a0 The other way to solve the problem is to throw money at it.\u00a0 These proponents believe that results are directly related to how much money is spent per student.\u00a0 Let me jump in here and simply label both of these very opposing ideas….. wrong.\u00a0 Once you view the education of children as what it is, a single system, with students, teachers, parents, school staff, etc., all having a part to play in what is arguably the highest calling we can undertake, you will dispense with singling out just one part of the whole system.\u00a0 It is one system and must be treated that way.\u00a0 Tamper with one sliver of it, and you harm the whole, more than that, you can prevent the success of the whole.\u00a0 http:\/\/demingcollaboration.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems any attempt talk about education is met with one of two very old arguments.\u00a0 One, and currently the stronger of the two is the “hold everyone responsible” argument.\u00a0 This “solution” takes the tack of trying to improve the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}