{"id":5258,"date":"2023-01-28T14:07:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2023-01-28T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T20:07:34","slug":"education-smaller-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"EDUCATION &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; SMALLER IS BETTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 25 years ago I was meeting with the school superintendent in the rural community of Riesel, Texas, to talk about their playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a well-rounded conversation about education&#8212;one of my top passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He quoted a professor from an east Texas university, shedding light on education focus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Give me your existing education budget, and let me build two-room schoolhouses all over the district, and education will improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazing, there are variations of that concept gaining credence and momentum across the country&#8211;home school, co-ops, Christian schools, education pods, school choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 25 years ago I was meeting with the school superintendent in the rural community of Riesel, Texas, to talk about their playground. We had a well-rounded conversation about education&#8212;one of my top passions. He quoted a professor from an east Texas university, shedding light on education focus: &#8220;Give me your existing education budget, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}