by Carol A. Josel | Jan 6, 2022 | Academics, Articles, Parenting
“The younger I was, the less I wanted to revise. Kids typically have the same taste for revisions as they do veggies. ~ Paul Fleishman, Newbury winner Correct wording, sentence structure, verb tense, spelling, comma usage, and on and on… Grammar and punctuation are...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 12, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary
Says the All Kids Bike Panel: “Kids and teens age 8 to 18 spend an average of more than seven hours a day looking at screens. The new warning from the AHA recommends parents limit screen time for kids to a maximum of just two hours per day. For younger children, age...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 29, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary, Making Education News
What’s going on in our schools has many parents in a fury, starting with several library books, that, instead of us bringing us together, are further tearing us apart… The Young Adult Library Services division of the American Library Association helps decide what...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 22, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
*** Pressured by the teachers’ union, the Los Angeles School District never opened during the 2019-20 school year. At the same time, it demanded that teachers not teach remotely for more than four hours a day BUT receive their full pay. *** Almost 66% of students...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 8, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
We all said 2021 would be different than locked down 2020. Vaccines were coming on the scene, the world reopened, and life as we knew it would be ours again. Except it isn’t… Districtadministrator.com’s Mark Zalaznicki, in his September 28 piece, “School...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 4, 2021 | Academics, Articles, In The News, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
So, who is this fellow on tap to replace Betsy DeVos as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Education, jumping ahead of both NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia and AFT president Randi Weingarten? Well, for starters, he was an English Language Learner when a student himself,...
