by Carol A. Josel | Jul 22, 2014 | Making Education News
1. Obama’s 2015 budget includes $120 million to create safe schools and intervene early on in the early lives of troubled children. $25 million is for violent-prone schools, and $50 million is to train staff in violence- and bullying-reducing strategies. 2....
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 21, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Inexperience with technology might frustrate many students taking the computerized Common Core assessments. As I recently realized after debriefing with hundreds of students who had participated in pilots of computerized assessment items, even many digital...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 18, 2014 | Articles
The other day, I went Internet exploring about the dos and don’ts of parenting prompted by a scene I witnessed at a seven-year-old kid’s drop-off birthday party. Not all invitees were seven, however. Two were younger and two were older—all either neighbors or...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 17, 2014 | Helpful Resources
** http://powermylearning.org ~ Here you’ll “find and use thousands of FREE games, videos, and interactives in all major K-12 subjects and aligned to the Common Core. ** www.procon.org ~ This site’s mission is “promoting critical thinking,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 16, 2014 | Making Education News
1) Overall, teachers in the largest metropolitan areas were at school 94% of their scheduled hours–but 16% of them were chronically absent, missing 18 or more school days a year. Another 16% missed just 3 or fewer days. 2) A Gallup poll of about 1,900...
