by Carol A. Josel | Sep 11, 2012 | Making Education News
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, public school students enjoy an average of 1.7 hours of recess a week, but 7% to 10% of schools have no recess at all. The national student-teacher ratio rose 4.6% between 2008 and 2010. The Obama...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 10, 2012 | Articles
Did you know that 69% of our high schoolers don’t get enough shut eye? More specifically, more than 50% get 6 or 7 hours, 10% report getting only 5 hours, and an unsettling 5.9% say they get only 4 hours of sleep on school nights. All that spells trouble. In a CDC...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 10, 2012 | Quotable Quotes
On the soon-to-be-released film Won’t Back Down with Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhall: “I cred several times despite knowing that this movie was funded by charter school privatizers seeking fistfuls of dwindling education dollars. I cried despite knowing...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 7, 2012 | Quotable Quotes
“The push for reform has emerged from a growing bipartisan consensus–joined by the Obama administration–that the old advancement model based on tenure and seniority wasn’t always working, with union-negotiated agreements viewed as sometimes...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 6, 2012 | Making Education News
The Chicago Teachers Union has announced that it will strike on September 10th over pay class size, and a longer school day. The National Education Policy Center has renewed its call to slow the growth of full-tie K-12, Inc. virtual schools until students’...
