{"id":1463,"date":"2008-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:43:41","slug":"anthony-phillis-10-talks-about-improving-this-countrys-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/10\/25\/anthony-phillis-10-talks-about-improving-this-countrys-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Phillips &#8217;10 talks about improving this country&#8217;s education system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/72Phillips1627.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Phillips 10\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Phillips &#039;10<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anthony Phillips &#8217;10, a double major in African American studies and philosophy from Philadelphia, offered a commentary for &#8220;My America 2008,&#8221; a special election-year series of <em>The Tavis Smiley Show<\/em>, broadcast by Public Radio International.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips talked about how his educational performance improved once he moved from an overcrowded public school system in Philadelphia to a private school, where teachers were able to give him greater individual attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/bates-in-the-news.xml\">[Original Story]<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1463-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tavissmileyradioasset.com\/cache\/2008\/102408_YouthCommentary.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tavissmileyradioasset.com\/cache\/2008\/102408_YouthCommentary.mp3\">http:\/\/www.tavissmileyradioasset.com\/cache\/2008\/102408_YouthCommentary.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Phillips &#8217;10, a double major in African American studies and philosophy from Philadelphia, offered a commentary for &#8220;My America 2008,&#8221; a special election-year series of The Tavis Smiley Show, broadcast by Public Radio International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,17,234,11009],"tags":[7152,12105,11051,6982],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-partners-public","category-teaching-education","category-the-college","tag-2008-presidential-election","tag-africana","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/83261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}