by Carol A. Josel | Sep 16, 2025 | 2024 NAEP test results, Academics, Making Education News
With thanks to Education Week, do you know that…? *** The 2024-25 School Year Money Train: + + Federal Spending: $ $119.1 billion (About $2,400 per student) ++ State Spending: $383.9 billion (About $7,738 per student) + + Local Spending: $375.2 billion (About...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 8, 2025 | Academics, Education reform, Making Education News
As grades and graduation rates keep rising … About Equitable Grading policies—such as no zeros, no penalties for late work, unlimited test/quiz retakes, no credit for completed assignments, and none for class participation—a Rand Corporation/Fordham Institute...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 15, 2025 | Academics, Parenting
Dear Parents, Ready or not, it’s upon us… Retailers got started way back on July 4 with early back-to-school sales, and many took full advantage, while others are still getting the job done, shopping, filling bookbags, and readying everything for day one of the...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 6, 2025 | Academics, AI in Education News, Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Technology in Education
“Funding uncertainty, budget constraints, and a move toward paring down inventories of educational technology are top of mind for many district officials… Despite these downward pressures on ed-tech adoption, the number of tech tools in use in school systems continues...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 9, 2025 | 9 LGBTQ+ picture books with SCOTUS, Academics, Carol A Josel, LGBTQ+ in the classroom, Making Education News, Parenting, USA Today's Ingrid Jacques
Unlike Shakespeare’s challenged Romeo and Juliet, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat, once-upon-a-time schooling mainstays, nine elementary grade LGBTQ+ picture books find themselves in the hands of the nine Supreme Court Justices. Brought...
by Carol A. Josel | May 14, 2025 | Academics, Making Education News, Reading Wars
ABOUT LOOK/SAY (WHOLE WORD) and WHOLE LANGUAGE: 1929: Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a pioneer in the study of learning disabilities and dyslexia, warns educators: “The sight word method would cause reading disabilities among a very large number of...
