{"id":10730,"date":"2016-03-04T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:24:31","slug":"the-learning-network-third-annual-student-editorial-contest-write-about-an-issue-that-matters-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/the-learning-network-third-annual-student-editorial-contest-write-about-an-issue-that-matters-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Learning Network: Third Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Learning Network is holding its third annual student editorial contest, featuring short, evidence-based persuasive essays where teenagers take a stand on an issue and attempt to convince readers of their point of view. <strong>Deadline: March 29, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;As teachers know, the persuasive essay has long been a staple of high school education, but the Common Core standards seem to have put evidence-based argumentative writing on everybody\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">You couldn\u2019t ask for a more real-world example of the genre than the classic newspaper editorial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>By Michael Gonchar and Katherine Schulten<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interested in finding out more? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/25\/our-third-annual-student-editorial-contest-write-about-an-issue-that-matters-to-you\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a> at The Learning Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Learning Network is holding its third annual student editorial contest, featuring short, evidence-based persuasive essays where teenagers take a stand on an issue and attempt to convince readers of their point of view.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":10733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[659,64,308,347,670,671],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10751,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions\/10751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}