by Carol A. Josel | Jun 6, 2016 | Articles
Laura Chapman, a retired teacher and curriculum advisor in the arts, recently posted a piece for education historian Diane Ravitch on this brave new data-obsessed world of ours. What it suggests/reveals should give us all pause, even those without school-aged kids....
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 10, 2013 | Articles
Not only do student loans and their accompanying debt keep making news, such lending has become big business for the federal government. In fact, federal student loans have nearly doubled since 2007, with the result that the U.S. Department of Education realized a...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 4, 2013 | Making Education News
1. Just so you know: The U.S. boasted 1/3 of all high-performing students in both reading and science among the OCED nations–far more than our next closest competitor Japan. On math, we claimed 14% of the high performers, with Japan coming in at 15.2% and South...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 30, 2012 | Making Education News
The Obama administration is awarding $290 million in grants to reward top teachers and boost opportunities for teachers who work in the almost 1,000 impoverished schools in 18 states and D.C. The U.S. Department of Education is sending more than $24 million to 22...
