{"id":6683,"date":"2015-10-22T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T05:35:24","slug":"registers-lost-schools-on-iptv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/registers-lost-schools-on-iptv-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Register&#8217;s &#8216;Lost Schools&#8217; on IPTV tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Des Moines Register<\/em>&#8216;s documentary about the changes and decline of rural Iowa&#8217;s school districts airs on Iowa Public Television at 7 tonight. Former North Tama principal Nick Pace is among those interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with that,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowapublicradio.org\/post\/new-documentary-features-iowas-lost-schools#stream\/0\">Iowa Public Radio interviewed<\/a>\u00a0reporter Jason Clayworth, photographer Charlie Litchfield, and a small-school shared superintendent in southwestern Iowa. (Sidney is misspelled in the chatter.) The interview is about 50 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s <em>Register<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/education\/lost-schools\/2015\/10\/17\/shuttered-schools-rural-americas-sos\/73055596\/\">had a &#8220;what does it all mean&#8221; type of piece<\/a>, and as far as ISU economist David Swenson is concerned, we&#8217;re past the point of no return. Former opinion writer Richard Doak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/10\/17\/column-ghost-schools-haunt-iowa\/73953274\/\">also wrote about it<\/a>, and for the most part avoided a broadside against rural Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>(For the record, I was not consulted, aside from the very beginning of the project when I floated\/agreed with Corwith-Wesley and Southeast Webster-Grand\/Prairie Valley as potential candidates to be covered.)<\/p>\n<p>Plug and reminder: My <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/schooltimeline.html\">timeline of changes to Iowa school districts over the past 30 years<\/a>\u00a0gets updated after I dig up new information or when things happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Des Moines Register&#8216;s documentary about the changes and decline of rural Iowa&#8217;s school districts airs on Iowa Public Television at 7 tonight. Former North Tama principal Nick Pace is among those interviewed. In conjunction with that,\u00a0Iowa Public Radio interviewed\u00a0reporter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/registers-lost-schools-on-iptv-tonight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6685,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}