{"id":2340,"date":"2016-12-02T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2016-12-02T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T13:58:01","slug":"a-tale-of-two-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out the stark difference between the covers of the old and new editions of Quality Education<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Left: The cover of the ASQC-Quality Press edition. Right: The cover of the new, self-published edition, designed by Christopher Rinehart<\/a>. (Click to enlarge.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

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I don’t think the original cover was all that bad, but the motif is a little dark.<\/p>\n

The new edition, however, by virtue of its being completely overhauled — even though most of the content is the same, the new structure makes it feel<\/em> to me like a completely different book — needed an updated, more interesting cover. I think the new cover works very well, and graphically represents that a lot of different elements go into making a sound educational cornerstone for society.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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P.S. Obligatory shameless plug: If you or someone you know is a parent, teacher, or just an interested observer of the goings-on in our educational system, the new edition of Quality Education<\/em> is available now on Amazon in both electronic (Kindle)<\/a> and trade paperback<\/a> formats. Earlier this week the Kindle version\u00a0reached as high as 13th place on Amazon’s list of “Education Policy and Reform” bestsellers.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out the stark difference between the covers of the old and new editions of Quality Education: Left: The cover of the ASQC-Quality Press edition. Right: The cover of the new, self-published edition, designed by Christopher Rinehart. (Click to enlarge.)   I don’t think the original cover was all that \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[225,66],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-book","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}