by Carol A. Josel | Nov 27, 2013 | Helpful Resources
*** www.peacecorps.gov/wws ~ This Peace Corps World Wise School site “provides students with a view of life in more than 80 countries where Peace Corps volunteers serve.” *** www.sparky.org ~ This National Fire Protection Association Sparky the Fire Dog...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 26, 2013 | Making Education News
1) In 2011, among 25- to 34-year-olds, having a bachelor’s degree or higher increased their average earnings by 69% for men and 70% for women over those with only a high school diploma. 2) On the international PIACC, which tested 16- to 65-year-olds on a set of...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 25, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “There is an obsession with bad teachers. It is destroying the teaching profession.” ~ Diane Ravitch, education historian ** “Right now we have a misalignment. Testing now has replaced instruction, and that’s a bad place for us to...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 22, 2013 | Articles
It happens—and probably more often than you might think. Indeed, every three minutes someone with a food allergy reaction ends up in an emergency room. That makes for more than 200,000 such visits every year. And that’s both a very big deal and a growing problem,...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 22, 2013 | Articles
Okay, so maybe most of us don’t know that, when, in 1935 and ’36, the Supreme Court found against certain parts of Roosevelt’s New Deal, he responded by threatening to appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views. Surely, though, we all know how many...
