by Carol A. Josel | Mar 14, 2019 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
The students chant: “No Summit! No Summit” echoed across McPherson Middle School’s campus on a recent, cold January afternoon. The reason: Facebook’s ChanZuckerberg Initiative’s Summit Learning. Said 7th grader Drake Madden, “It’s a learning program that is supposed...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 21, 2019 | In The News, Making Education News
The Denver Classroom Teachers Association’s agreement includes:1) A 7% to 11% increase in base salary of $43,255 for a starting teacher; 2) A “clear and transparent 20-step salary schedule; 3) Full cost of living increases in the 2nd and 3rd year of the...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 20, 2019 | Quotable Quotes
Read on, and then have your say, too… “We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” ~ Ronald Reagan...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 17, 2019 | Carol A Josel
We’ve already invited Artificial Intelligence (AI) into our homes; as I write Alexa is singing to me–and also listening to every word said in my home. Unsettling at best but not yet unplugged… And now, as we recognize the one-year, February 18,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 29, 2019 | It’s a Fact
With thanks to Maya Riser-Kositsky’s January 16, 2019 Education Week piece we know that, of the 133,853 public schools in 2015-16… 88,665 Elementary schools 26,986 Secondary schools 16,511 Combined 691: Other, including those for special education and alternative...
