by Carol A. Josel | Jul 5, 2016 | Commentary
Here’s one more reason–and a very convincing one–why parents should make their kids put down their electronic devices and get their kids moving. The research also has implications for schools and their government-sponsored obsession with data and...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 5, 2016 | Commentary
Sure it’s summer and classrooms are empty for now, but it’s still worth taking note that, every year it seems our kids are staying away from school in droves. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2013-14 Civil Rights Data Collection’s 2016...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 14, 2016 | Commentary
Actor and national outreach director for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital Marlo Thomas says, “Whether the story is terrorism, economic turmoil, global warming, or racial tensions, children are being raised in fear and are having an...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 13, 2016 | Commentary
In a recent article, Health Day reporter Amy Norton posited that maybe, just maybe, the global rise in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may be due to us adults having “unreasonable expectations of young children,” just as researchers have been...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 24, 2016 | Commentary
Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution had this to say recently about the Common Core English/Language Arts standards: “The Common Core standards recommend that teachers spend 50% of reading time on fiction and 50% on informational texts in...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 17, 2016 | Articles, Commentary
Those in the know have been saying it since the dawn of the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 and high stakes testing: Kindergarten has been “reformed,” replacing play and socialization skills with learning to read–and much the shame....
