by Carol A. Josel | Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
When it comes to education, it’s often a matter of follow the leader, and. In this case, I’m talking about the great state of California and its “bold move to mandate later start times for middle and high schools.” Can the rest be far behind? At first glance, it makes...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 16, 2019 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Here’s a brief update on the latest in the world of education: Because 57% of teens and 63% of parents worry about a shooting happening in their school, just about every public schools conducted some kind of lockdown drill. This, despite the fact that, says a...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 9, 2019 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
These are, indeed, troubling times for our children… Thanks, at least in part, to the education reform movement that replaced play with an academic push in the pre-school years, Brown University researchers found that incoming kindergartners now start school with...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 25, 2019 | Articles
Ah, tests, the bane of many and now a deeply entrenched part of schooling in these data collecting days, complete with test prep sessions. About the state-required assessments, while telling kids to relax and just do their best, embedded is also the message that...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 20, 2019 | Carol A Josel
“Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words will never harm me….” That ditty bolstered a whole of us back when, but nowadays nasty words find their way online, too, potentially causing cause great and endless hurt. Question is, while schools are out there on the...
