by Carol A. Josel | May 1, 2019 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
The Education Week Research Center put education technology’s effectiveness to the test and found that, when it comes to teachers’ views about related innovations: Less than 33% said they’ve changed their beliefs about what schools should look like. Less than 50% said...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 25, 2019 | Carol A Josel
Speaking at the National Press Club last week, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, spoke her mind in no uncertain terms about the plight of teachers. Noting the profession’s “ongoing and alarming crisis,” she targeted two major...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 15, 2019 | Academics, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
You’ve just gotta love the lofty titles of Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act, (ESSA), and its predecessor, Bush’s 2001’s No Child Left Behind, or NCLB—as if a 100% success rate were ever doable. No stragglers, no one bringing up the rear, no one back there at...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 10, 2019 | Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Washington Post’s Andrew Van Dam reports that, back in the early 1990s, teachers and support staff enjoyed above-average paychecks in 26 out of the 42 states in the Labor Department’s database. By 2017, only one state, Rhode Island, could make that boast, while the...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 8, 2019 | Academics, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
Ed tech continues to change schooling, with devices and online programs nowadays taking front and center, not the teacher. That is most certainly the case with personalized learning, the latest education reform buzzword. Although touted by proponents as learning’s...
