by Carol A. Josel | Apr 6, 2025 | Academics, Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes, Technology
** According to a recent National Center for Education Statistics School Pulse Panel survey of 1,500 schools, more than 80% say they’re “seeing stunted behavior and socioemotional development in their students.” ** While federal law requires that states test...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 31, 2025 | Making Education News, Parenting
Recently, Education Week’s Libby Stanford reported that, three years ago, Adlai Stevenson Elementary had little to boast: As the lowest-performing elementary school in Pennsylvania’s Southfield School District, it found itself hemorrhaging students. The...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 22, 2025 | Academics, Making Education News
Back in my junior high days, the principal got to know me really well… God, I even made my 7th-grade history teacher cry by rolling a marble or two down the aisle while she droned on and on. At the same time, during art class, Mr. H. liked to walk around his...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 15, 2025 | Carol A Josel, Inventions, Looking Back at History
It comes in like a lion and often goes out the same way, but in between, March offers up such goodies as Read Across America Day, Daylight Saving Time, the Spring Equinox, St. Patrick’s Day, and, in 1987, got itself officially named Women’s History Month, 130 years...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 21, 2025 | Academics, Making Education News, Making News
About the results on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment Governing Board writes, “National scores are below pre-pandemic 2019 levels in ALL tested grades and subjects.” Plus, thanks to our...
