by Carol A. Josel | Jan 26, 2016 | Making Education News
1) The newly passed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) takes up 1,016 pages, whereas the original Elementary & Secondary Art of 1965 was just 32 pages long. 2) When asked how optimistic ASCD readers are that ESSA will help failing schools and help close the...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 25, 2016 | Quotable Quotes
** “No area of human effort is free from bad ideas and mistaken theories, but the quest to ‘reform’ public education is particularly awash in misguided convictions. Concepts like ‘merit pay,’ the scapegoating of teachers, and the alleged...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 24, 2016 | Commentary
Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution had this to say recently about the Common Core English/Language Arts standards: “The Common Core standards recommend that teachers spend 50% of reading time on fiction and 50% on informational texts in...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 17, 2016 | Articles, Commentary
Those in the know have been saying it since the dawn of the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 and high stakes testing: Kindergarten has been “reformed,” replacing play and socialization skills with learning to read–and much the shame....
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 14, 2016 | Articles
The following, as reported by Education Week’s Sarah D. Sparks, are among the findings of the National Center on Education Statistics sixth comprehensive international comparison report that looked into not just the G-8 countries, but the G-20, including...
