by Carol A. Josel | May 27, 2019 | In The News, Quotable Quotes
Best-selling author Daniel Pink: “Want better academic performance from your students?” Give ‘em frickin’ recess!” Pledging $40 million, billionaire tech investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith to the Morehouse College graduating class of 2019: “My family is going...
by Carol A. Josel | May 8, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News, Making News
One would think that a parent walking into their child’s school would want to make a good impression and dress accordingly. We are, after all, judged, at least in part, on appearance and first impressions count. Well, some folks apparently don’t see it that way,...
by Carol A. Josel | May 1, 2019 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
The Education Week Research Center put education technology’s effectiveness to the test and found that, when it comes to teachers’ views about related innovations: Less than 33% said they’ve changed their beliefs about what schools should look like. Less than 50% said...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 15, 2019 | Academics, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
You’ve just gotta love the lofty titles of Obama’s Every Student Succeeds Act, (ESSA), and its predecessor, Bush’s 2001’s No Child Left Behind, or NCLB—as if a 100% success rate were ever doable. No stragglers, no one bringing up the rear, no one back there at...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 8, 2019 | Academics, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
Ed tech continues to change schooling, with devices and online programs nowadays taking front and center, not the teacher. That is most certainly the case with personalized learning, the latest education reform buzzword. Although touted by proponents as learning’s...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 18, 2019 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
For starters, the recent Education Week Research Center’s Chance-for-Success Index reflects experiences–both in and out of school–that affect how well we do over the course of our lifetimes. It’s based on 13 specific education-related factors in a person’s...
