by Carol A. Josel | Jul 12, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News, Parenting
These ongoing unsettled times keep impacting our collective well-being and taking a big toll on many of our kids, too. After long-endured remote instruction, masking, and isolation, the “new normal” arrived. Up now: “norm erosion” to explain what’s behind the 14...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News
Education seems to matter more than ever, now taking center-stage–and not just about money matters. No; take for instance, the page one, above-the-fold USA Today June 12, bold-faced headline that read, “Classroom Scourge: Chronic Absenteeism.” Spot on… Since...
by Carol A. Josel | May 31, 2024 | Articles, Carol A Josel, Looking Back at History
The Chorus: “Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bonds be set. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.” Lyrics by poet,...
by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Making Education News
On the horizon: Linguistic Fingerprinting “to determine whether a text has been written by a specific person based on an analysis of their previous writings,” writes Ed Surge’s Jeffrey Young. (Akin to fingerprinting except related to the way we write.) As of February...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 25, 2024 | Carol A Josel
Grades, oh, my God, grades, the bane of my schooling years, as I followed along in the wake of my smart, “A” student, big sister and never measured up. What’s more, my middle school principal got to know me much too well because, not only did my grades...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 5, 2024 | Academics, Articles, Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Technology in Education
In the news of late: TikTok under fire, with the U.S. House of Representatives, in March, approving a bi-partisan bill that would force its parent company, ByteDance, to either sell the app or be banned on all of our devices. As noted by Ryan Lovelace of The...
