by Carol A. Josel | Aug 7, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News
Parents, make your voices heard because schools have embraced tech big-time, with a lot of reform and financial encouragement from politicians, tech folks, and textbook publishers, too. Take the $8.5 billion textbook giant Pearson’s recent shift from print to digital,...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 6, 2019 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
The term restorative justice, though be no means new, gained popular attention thanks to Obama’s 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter and guidance response to an Office of Civil Rights notice that, not only are some 2.6 million students suspended every year, those decisions...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 24, 2019 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making News
Public trust in government is reportedly at an all-time low, and we’re more polarized than ever on everything from the climate and immigration to guns and healthcare. Even the Electoral College is under fire, and criticism of the Supreme Court at times runs high....
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 21, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making News
The 2020 presidential campaign is still in its early stages–sort of, anyway–but why should we be surprised that, even among same party colleagues, confrontation is the name of the game. Seems that, regardless of the message or the messenger, nowadays...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 17, 2019 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Summer is barely half over, but already back-to-school sales are flooding the marketplace, with store shelves brimming with school-related goodies, everything from binders and notebook paper to pens, pencils, and backpacks. Indeed, Deloitte projects that overall K-12...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 14, 2019 | Articles, In The News, Making Education News, Making News
Private school vouchers hark back to President George W. Bush and his signing of the D.C. School Choice Incentive Act of 2003, thus creating the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. As a result, numerous low-income families received funding to make up for the cost of...
