by Carol A. Josel | Feb 1, 2025 | Carol A Josel, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Moody’s Ratings has now given our traditional K-12 public schools “a negative outlook.” The top reason: slowing revenue. The $121.9 billion from the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief III had to be spent by January 28, 2025, now extended to March 2026–but...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 25, 2025 | Making News
On the 17th, AP science writer Seth Borenstein put it this way, “The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe…” Indeed, it seems as...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 20, 2025 | AI in Education News, Technology in Education
This morning, I asked Google how/why teachers use Artificial Intelligence and got this AI-generated answer: “[It] essentially makes teaching more efficient and effective.” How? #1 on the accompanying list is Personalized Learning. The reason? Reportedly, AI analyzes...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 5, 2025 | Academics, Making Education News
The 1983 eye opener, A Nation at Risk, highlighted declining student achievement and SAT scores, too. An indictment, if you will, of our public schools that preceded such education reforms as George W. Bush’s NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and Obama’s ESSA (Every Student...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 30, 2024 | Carol A Josel
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” Well, as we all know, they actually can and often do, while some simply get used so much they rise to the title Words of the Year, reflecting the times we live and/or how language evolves. In 2024,...
