by Carol A. Josel | Aug 21, 2019 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Senator Cory Booker’s brother Cary co-founded Omni Prep, a charter school forced to close in 2016 due to financial and management issues, poor academic results, and inexperience with early childhood education. Nevertheless, NJ Governor Phil Murphy recently hired him...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 14, 2019 | Commentary, In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Before you shout, “Yay!” when you read that Pennsylvania’s new state budget includes a $210 million increase in education funding, take note… First of all, the commonwealth pays just 35% of the education bill and comes in 46th out of the 50 states. Secondly, unfunded...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 12, 2019 | Commentary, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News, Making News
Charter schools make for endless news streams, fraught as they are with fraud, poor performance stats, and cost to traditional public schools. And speaking of headlines… “Charter Schools. School Vouchers. Private Schools. Home Schooling. Join the Discussion as Staff...
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 | Aug 1, 2019 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
As reported by Sarah Schwartz in her piece, “Students in Distress Strain Teachers’ Skills,” Education Week surveyed teachers regarding the importance of and their ability to teach social-emotional skills—build strong relationships, make smart decisions, manage...
