{"id":97,"date":"2016-03-08T22:37:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=97"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:37:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:37:54","slug":"the-world-is-changing-but-can-education-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/03\/08\/the-world-is-changing-but-can-education-keep-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is changing, but can education keep up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Many school pupils feel frustrated and bored during the hours they have to hunch over their books feverishly memorising formulas that seem irrelevant to their lives \u2013 and most likely will be quickly forgotten once their final exams are over.<\/p>\n<p>Research indicates that although standardised tests may adequately measure a student\u2019s knowledge, they are a poor yardstick when it comes to highlighting other aspects and abilities \u2013 such as collaboration, character, teamwork and leadership skills \u2013 that are arguably more important when wanting to achieve success in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/opinion\/comment\/the-world-is-changing-but-can-education-keep-up\">Read the entire post here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many school pupils feel frustrated and bored during the hours they have to hunch over their books feverishly memorising formulas that seem irrelevant to their lives \u2013 and most likely will be quickly forgotten once their final exams are over. Research indicates that although standardised tests may adequately measure a student\u2019s knowledge, they are a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/03\/08\/the-world-is-changing-but-can-education-keep-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}