{"id":366549,"date":"2026-07-09T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366549\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:07:07","slug":"texas-has-a-theory-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366549\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas has a theory of education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/robert-pondiscio-edit_0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Pondiscio is a senior visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at\u00a0the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)<\/p>\n<p>He writes and speaks extensively on education and education-reform issues, with an emphasis on literacy, curriculum, civic education, and classroom practice. His 2019 book, How the Other Half Learns, based on a year of observations at New York City\u2019s Success Academy\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/about\/fordham-staff\/robert-pondiscio\" class=\"views-more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View Full Bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Pondiscio is a senior visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at\u00a0the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-366549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}