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Promote Community to Combat Chronic Absenteeism, Not Bribes

by Carol A. Josel | Jul 12, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News, Parenting

  These ongoing unsettled times keep impacting our collective well-being and taking a big toll on many of our kids, too. After long-endured remote instruction, masking, and isolation, the “new normal” arrived. Up now: “norm erosion” to explain what’s behind the 14...

Briefly and Lest We Forget: How July 4th Came to be America’s Independence Day

by Carol A. Josel | Jul 2, 2024 | Looking Back at History

   *** “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” ~ Thomas Jefferson *** “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” ~ John Adams *** “And so, my fellow Americans:...

Chronic Absenteeism: A Schooling Crisis

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News

Education seems to matter more than ever, now taking center-stage–and not just about money matters. No; take for instance, the page one, above-the-fold USA Today June 12, bold-faced headline that read, “Classroom Scourge: Chronic Absenteeism.”  Spot on… Since...

William Shakespeare + Sir Edward Elgar = The Graduation March

by Carol A. Josel | May 31, 2024 | Articles, Carol A Josel, Looking Back at History

The Chorus: “Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bonds be set. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.” Lyrics by poet,...

America’s Schools 2024: Troubling Money Issues, Test Scores, and Teacher Shortages

by Carol A. Josel | May 26, 2024 | Academics, Making Education News

   The national debt is closing in on $35 trillion–up $8 trillion in just the last three years. Now add in the annual interest on those trillions, a whopping $659 billion just last year. However, none of that has slowed the government’s ongoing spending spree,...
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