by Carol A. Josel | Mar 13, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making News
With dollar signs dancing in their heads, state officials across the country already have or are now considering legalizing recreational marijuana. Virginia recently joined their ranks, though the law won’t go into effect until 2024, disappointing even the ACLU...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
“… Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” ~ Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1946 *** In 2009’s Read Across America Day, Obama called Seuss “one of America’s revered wordsmiths.” In 2016, he said that the writer “used his incredible talent to...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 28, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News
Make no mistake, these “Culturally Responsive Standards” have nothing to do with reading, writing, or math, but, on February 16, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules of the Illinois General Assembly approved them anyway—and they’re on track to go national....
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 21, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Making News
1. A recent John Fritze USA Today piece headlines with “Biden Eyes High Court Panel,” and continued by saying he would proceed via a “bipartisan” commission to study Supreme Court reforms. At the same time, eight progressive organizations have joined to...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Without comment–and no grammatical, punctuation, wording changes–what follows is a sampling from the 82-page antiracist “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: *** “White supremacy culture infiltrates math classroom in everyday teacher action....
