by Carol A. Josel | Nov 19, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact
Back in February2021, News Wise reported that, “As teens’ use of social media has grown over the past decade, so too has the suicide rate among younger people.” Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among those ages 10 to 34. Many have suggested...
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 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 | Aug 22, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact
Look up remote in a thesaurus, and you’ll find not just the usual distant and far-off, but also lonely, disconnected, and isolated, perfect descriptors for the distance learning foisted on millions of students in March 2020 when America was locked down, schools...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2021 | Articles, Making Education News
The ball got rolling with President George W. Bush’s 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), next made its way to Obama’s Common Core Standards (CCS) online assessments and 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and then landed on Biden’s lap. He, despite a year of...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 18, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Writing that “getting ed tech wrong would be a bitter pandemic legacy, American Enterprise resident Scholar and Education Policy Studies director Rick Hess cites several examples of bad ed-tech habits that developed during the lockdown “compromising instruction and...
