by Carol A. Josel | Aug 8, 2016 | Articles
Recently released results of a two-part Pew Research Center survey conducted early this year queried 4,654 adults about their favorite national and international news sources and viewing habits. The findings reflect a number of age-related trends. For instance: 20%...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 1, 2016 | Articles
The powers that be keep taking their education reform agenda to new lows, even as they speak at the same time about raising standards, a la the ever-controversial Common Core State Standards. In reality, most teachers held their students to high account well before...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 30, 2016 | Articles
Some time before schools had shut their doors on the 2015-16 school year, the U.S. Department of Education’s 2013-14 Civil Rights Data Collection’s 2016 update reported that over 6.5 million kids had been “chronically absent.” In other words, they missed 15 or...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 9, 2016 | Articles
As a student teacher supervisor working out of two colleges, I just had to include this excerpt from a piece by Peter Greene, a veteran high school teacher in Pennsylvania who also happens to author the Curmudgucation blog. In it he tackles tech-based teacher prep...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 6, 2016 | Articles
Laura Chapman, a retired teacher and curriculum advisor in the arts, recently posted a piece for education historian Diane Ravitch on this brave new data-obsessed world of ours. What it suggests/reveals should give us all pause, even those without school-aged kids....
by Carol A. Josel | May 25, 2016 | Articles
Long ago when Mahatma Ghandi said, “Each night when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn,” he was definitely on to something. As Time’s Alice Park explains, “It [sleep] is nature’s panacea, more powerful than any drug in its ability...
