by Carol A. Josel | Jan 31, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News
Hold on to your collective hats, everyone. 2021 is just one month old, but big changes are in the air. What’s old is new again, and some things will never be the same … The 2020 federal budget deficit hit $3 trillion+. So far, each taxpayer’s share of the federal...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 24, 2021 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Before rounding the corner and homing in on home plate—Inauguration Day 2021—President-Elect Joe Biden unveiled his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, an add-on to Congress’s March $3 Trillion COVID relief plan and December’s $900 billion. Here’s a quick—albeit...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 10, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Thanks to the COVID vaccine, the light is on at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long way off and for many kids that translates into more on and off again remote instruction, with mental health and more on the chopping block… Turns out that 39% of districts...
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,...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 26, 2020 | Articles, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
Recently Education Week’s Madeline Will wrote a piece called, “How Teachers’ Unions Are Influencing Decisions on School Reopenings.” Here some excerpts from the article about what’s being said about the unions and reopenings: “Teachers’ unions have an outsized...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 21, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
It snowed a lot in the northeast last week, making for a perfect snow day, a time to unleash kids and teachers alike from devices of all sorts to play–making snow balls, snowmen, snow angels, and maybe get in some sledding, too. But the likes of Philadelphia...
