{"id":607,"date":"2009-11-01T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-11-01T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:04:08","slug":"a-widening-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/11\/01\/a-widening-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"A Widening Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/200910\/backpage.cfm\">Back Page<\/a> article by Joseph Ganem in this month&#8217;s APS News suggests that nominal content and student capability outcomes in US high school mathematics are moving in opposite directions &#8211; and attributes this largely to attempts to introduce abstract topics before the students are ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Back Page article by Joseph Ganem in this month&#8217;s APS News suggests that nominal content and student capability outcomes in US high school mathematics are moving in opposite directions &#8211; and attributes this largely to attempts to introduce abstract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2009\/11\/01\/a-widening-gap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}