by Carol A. Josel | Jun 30, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “….Very few educators or parents have learning or scholarship in their hearts as the end-game for their children, except in the sense of their kids getting good grades. Most of us would prefer our children become the very best people they can be,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2014 | Helpful Resources
** http://code.org ~ With its mission to expand participation in computer science, this site believes that “every students in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming.” ** www.scholastic.com/island of lemurs/ ~ This site...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 25, 2014 | Making Education News
1) 13 states do not belong to either the PARCC or SBAC Common Core testing consortia, considerably more than at the outset. 2) According to a Gates Foundation survey of 20,000 K-12 teachers, 73% said they’re “enthusiastic about implementing the Common...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 24, 2014 | Making Education News
1. The U.S. Department of Education handed out $53.6 billion in Obama’s stimulus money to help K-12 budgets as long was they publicly reported on numerous education indicators, such as the performance of charters and the percentage of high school grads...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 23, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “On Thursday, Secretary of State Arne Duncan informed Washington that he was revoking the waiver that had freed it from impossible-to-meet requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the quixotic mandate that 100 percent of students be...
