{"id":28744,"date":"2012-06-26T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/we-oppose-the-teaching-of-higher-order-thinking\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:02:16","slug":"we-oppose-the-teaching-of-higher-order-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/we-oppose-the-teaching-of-higher-order-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills and similar programs \u2026 which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student\u2019s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>The Texas Republican 2012 platform, which officially\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/06\/26\/506357\/the-5-craziest-policies-in-texas-republicans-2012-platform\/\">opposes teaching students \u201ccritical thinking skills.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/06\/26\/506357\/the-5-craziest-policies-in-texas-republicans-2012-platform\/\">4 more of the Texas GOP\u2019s craziest policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/think-progress.tumblr.com\/\">think-progress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There are not enough frowny faces in the world for this. =|<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/on-tempo-off-beat.tumblr.com\/\">on-tempo-off-beat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>FUCK. ME. SIDEWAYS. hello attempted new world order, thy name is Republican.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills and similar programs \u2026 which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student\u2019s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. The Texas Republican 2012 platform, which officially\u00a0opposes teaching students \u201ccritical thinking skills.\u201d Read 4 more of the Texas GOP\u2019s craziest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/26\/we-oppose-the-teaching-of-higher-order-thinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8637,8638,8635,7383,8634,8633,8636],"class_list":["post-28744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-and-children","tag-and-the-future-of-humanitys-collective-knowledge","tag-but-its-not-even-political","tag-flail","tag-i-dont-like-political","tag-im-sorry-this-is-political","tag-its-fucking-life","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}