by Carol A. Josel | Oct 22, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
*** Pressured by the teachers’ union, the Los Angeles School District never opened during the 2019-20 school year. At the same time, it demanded that teachers not teach remotely for more than four hours a day BUT receive their full pay. *** Almost 66% of students...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 15, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes
Biden’s on-the-table $3.5+ trillion “Build Back Better” so-called infrastructure package expands the child tax credit, provides paid family leave, an expansion of ObamaCare, even a hefty electric vehicle tax credit. Lots of freebies and not just for the needy,...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 8, 2021 | Academics, Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
We all said 2021 would be different than locked down 2020. Vaccines were coming on the scene, the world reopened, and life as we knew it would be ours again. Except it isn’t… Districtadministrator.com’s Mark Zalaznicki, in his September 28 piece, “School...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 1, 2021 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact
Recent preliminary data from the CDC shows that there more than 5,200 overdose deaths in Pennsylvania alone in 2020, 16% more than in 2019. Nationally, the news is even grimmer: 93,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2020, a 29% more than 2019’s 72,000. And the...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 22, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact
Look up remote in a thesaurus, and you’ll find not just the usual distant and far-off, but also lonely, disconnected, and isolated, perfect descriptors for the distance learning foisted on millions of students in March 2020 when America was locked down, schools...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 15, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Writes Rick Hess, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and Education Policy Studies director: Media is ablaze with coverage of the heated resistance to ‘anti-racist’ education and Critical Race Theory (CRT). Much of the discourse, at least in education...
