by Carol A. Josel | Dec 11, 2013 | Helpful Resources
** www.masteryconnect.com ~ This site says it’s been designed with teachers in mind and provides content-area assessments, curriculum maps, standards-based student reports, and so much more. ** www.teach.org ~ This site “provides the information and...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 10, 2013 | Articles
Not only do student loans and their accompanying debt keep making news, such lending has become big business for the federal government. In fact, federal student loans have nearly doubled since 2007, with the result that the U.S. Department of Education realized a...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 10, 2013 | Making Education News
1) A 7-year-long study finds that effective elementary teachers who transferred to low-achieving schools under a $20,000 bonus-pay program helped their new students learn more on average than those in a control group. 2) Nearly 50% of all American public school...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 9, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “Teaching materials aligned with the controversial national educational standards ask fifth graders to edit such sentences as ‘The president makes sure the laws of the country are fair,’ ‘The wants of an individual are less important than...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 5, 2013 | Making Education News
1) 8 states have already adopted the Next Generation Science Standards. 2) 35 states and D.C. require student achievement to be a significant or most important factor in teacher evaluation. 44 states require classroom observations be added, too, and 19 states and D.C....
