by Carol A. Josel | Jun 6, 2021 | In The News, Making Education News
Quality Counts grades all 50 states and the country, too, on what’s known as the Chance-for-Success Index, resulting in “a snapshot of a person’s prospect of successful outcomes over a lifetime, from early childhood to adulthood and the working world.” To...
by Carol A. Josel | May 28, 2021 | Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Education Week’s Sarah D. Sparks took on the question, “How Much Real Learning Time Are Students Losing during the Pandemic?” She writes… Unfortunately, a series of new analyses suggest that the pandemic disrupted both of the most critical kinds of educational time....
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 17, 2021 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
An August 2020 National Education Association survey found that: 28% of educators said the pandemic made them likelier to leave teaching. Meanwhile, back in mid-November, the EdWeek Research Center survey of a nationally representative sample of 913 pre-K...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 10, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Thanks to the COVID vaccine, the light is on at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long way off and for many kids that translates into more on and off again remote instruction, with mental health and more on the chopping block… Turns out that 39% of districts...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 21, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
It snowed a lot in the northeast last week, making for a perfect snow day, a time to unleash kids and teachers alike from devices of all sorts to play–making snow balls, snowmen, snow angels, and maybe get in some sledding, too. But the likes of Philadelphia...