by Carol A. Josel | Aug 21, 2012 | Making Education News
The top performer on the 2009 PISA was Shanghai, China with a score of 556, while America’s 500 was largely unchanged from previous years. However, Asian-Americans came in second with a 541, and white Americans came in sixth with a score of 525....
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 20, 2012 | Quotable Quotes
“The lines between home and school are continuing to blur with more expections for schools to exercise authority in areas perivously reserved for parents.” ~ Max Riley, Superintendent, New Jersey’s Randolph School District “We’ve failed...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 22, 2011 | Articles
Food has been under attack of late—on TV, in the papers, and no more than on the school-front. The reasons speak for themselves: • One-third of our children/adolescents are either overweight or obese, thus putting them at higher risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 12, 2010 | Articles
The kindergarten controversy is not about to go away any time soon, as, more and more, school districts across the country turn the “children’s garden” into a full-day affair, complete with reading, writing, arithmetic, and testing, too. In other words, the new first...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 4, 2010 | Articles
Video games: absorbing, interactive, potentially addictive, and, on many occasion, violent—and therein lies much of the problem. That’s because many experts believe the brutality our children are exposed to desensitizes them and contributes to aggressive and...
