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Young People’s Views and Plans, 2021 and Beyond

by Carol A. Josel | Dec 10, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts

Mary Martin’s Peter Pan sang about perpetual youth, boldly shouting, “I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. Not me! Not I!” seemingly speaking for our kids today. Makes one wonder: “Will they ever grow up?” Adulting actually became Grammar Girl’s 2014 Word...

Google Docs Gets “Inclusive,” Autocorrecting What It Considers Offensive in Your Writing

by Carol A. Josel | Jul 30, 2021 | Commentary, Interesting Facts, Making News

Google Docs seems to think it has the right to make suggestions and/or autocorrect your writing, making it more inclusive and politically correct via its predictive text algorithm. “That,” explains Daily Wire’s Chrissy Clark, “uses one of two things: machine learning...

Illinois’s “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards”: The End of Learning as We’ve Known It

by Carol A. Josel | Feb 28, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News

   Make no mistake, these “Culturally Responsive Standards” have nothing to do with reading, writing, or math, but, on February 16, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules of the Illinois General Assembly approved them anyway—and they’re on track to go national....

Headlining: Axing the 1776 Commission, Bezos As Educator, Rising Suicides, Toddlers on Touchscreens, and More

by Carol A. Josel | Feb 7, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News

We already know Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so six more weeks of winter. We also know that we’ve got a new President and Congress, and that the pandemic is still in charge of much of our lives, as we scramble to get vaccinated. But did you know that: On his very...

Ready or Not: Big Debt, New Hires, Name Changes, Banned Books, and the “F” Word, Too

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...

Substitute Teacher Shortages and Disconnected Homeless Students

by Carol A. Josel | Jan 17, 2021 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News

An August 2020 National Education Association survey found that: 28% of educators said the pandemic made them likelier to leave teaching. Meanwhile, back in mid-November, the EdWeek Research Center survey of a nationally representative sample of 913 pre-K...
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