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...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 8, 2019 | In The News, Making News
A bit predictable, but, nevertheless… Some time ago, reports Lisa Rapaport, the CDC asked 14,800 young people to complete health surveys; they were, on average, 15 years old. The highest possible “connectedness” score for their relationships at school was 30; it was...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making News
Kathy Kiley, a former political USA Today reporter, is the Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. The following are excerpts from her recent piece, “Facebook Refusal to Curb Fake Nancy Pelosi Drunk Video Highlights Need...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 18, 2019 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
The National Center for Learning Disabilities and Understood.org teamed up and surveyed 1,350 teachers and also put together focus groups, looked at teacher certification requirements, and analyzed how best to teach students with mild to moderate disabilities. These...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 12, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making News, Quotable Quotes
Every other ad seems to end with a bit about taxpayers footing the bill, and I can’t help but wonder if anyone out there still remembers the time of budgeting and staying within our limits? And that, quite naturally, brings me to the notion about needing vs. wanting,...
