{"id":1349,"date":"2008-12-09T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:35:23","slug":"educational-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Educational Malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/07\/education\/07advanced.html\">New York Times<\/a>, Scarsdale High School has decided to get rid of their Advanced Placement classes, including AP Physics, replacing them with a new curriculum that cost &#8220;$40,000 to bring in 25 professors from Harvard, Yale, New York University and other top colleges.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have the luxury of being able to move beyond the A.P.,\u201d John Klemme, Scarsdale\u2019s principal, said in a recent interview. \u201cIf people called it a gold curriculum in the past, I refer to this version as the platinum curriculum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s the change in this new &#8220;platinum curriculum&#8221; as far as physics is concerned?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Physics students now study string theory \u2014 a hot topic in some college courses that is absent from the Advanced Placement exam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times, Scarsdale High School has decided to get rid of their Advanced Placement classes, including AP Physics, replacing them with a new curriculum that cost &#8220;$40,000 to bring in 25 professors from Harvard, Yale, New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=1349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}