{"id":717418,"date":"2010-04-14T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compact.org\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:14:10","slug":"community-colleges-our-work-has-just-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/717418","title":{"rendered":"Community Colleges: Our Work Has Just Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; color: #373839; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\">I have been a teacher for almost three decades and a community-college instructor for the past 16 years. Last spring, President Obama asked me to increase awareness about one of the best-kept secrets of higher education: the very sizable and valuable contribution of community colleges.\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia; color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 14px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u00bbRead the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Community-Colleges-Our-Work\/65060\/\">entire article<\/a> by Jill Biden in the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a teacher for almost three decades and a community-college instructor for the past 16 years. Last spring, President Obama asked me to increase awareness about one of the best-kept secrets of higher education: the very sizable and valuable contribution of community colleges.\u2026 \u00bbRead the entire article by Jill Biden in the Chronicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30Dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}