{"id":80,"date":"2011-09-29T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:40:11","slug":"the-children-must-play-from-the-new-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/the-children-must-play-from-the-new-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Children Must Play&#8221; from The New Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\">The New Republic<\/a>, in a January 28th article,\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/politics\/82329\/education-reform-Finland-US\">The Children Must Play:<br \/>\nWhat the United States could learn from Finland about education reform<\/a>&#8221; compares the differing\u00a0 approaches of Finland and the United States to education reform. From the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">&#8220;Not only do Finnish educational authorities provide students with  far more recess than their U.S. counterparts\u201475 minutes a day in Finnish  elementary schools versus an average of 27 minutes in the U.S.\u2014but they  also mandate lots of arts and crafts, more learning by doing, rigorous  standards for teacher certification, higher teacher pay, and attractive  working conditions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Share your thoughts and stories about play, and learning through play in the comments section.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic, in a January 28th article,\u00a0 &#8220;The Children Must Play: What the United States could learn from Finland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,19],"tags":[],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}