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Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2 – May 6, Falls Short

by Carol A. Josel | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News

  Every May, Teacher Appreciation Week comes around, five days set aside once a year to recognize the work of educators. But is it enough? I mean, really… When the Pandemic hit, teachers were applauded for transitioning from in-person to remote teaching; everyone was...

The Holocaust and the Question: Who Has the Right to Forgive on Behalf of Another?

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 27, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes

   In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he tells about when, as a young Jewish concentration camp prisoner, he was taken from a concentration camp to sit at a dying German soldier’s bedside. He listens as the soldier confesses to helping herd hundreds of...

Biden, Our First President to Call the Deaths of Some 1.2 Million Armenians a Genocide

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 21, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact

“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” ~ Adolph Hitler, August 22, 1939   She said she came into this world barefooted and would leave it the same way. Handing her shoes to her grandson, she met her death with countless other Armenians at...

Earth Day ’22 and a Call to Keep Cleaning Up

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 18, 2022 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact

   It’s a big deal, a very big deal that has now tied together the environment, climate change, even diet all under the Earth Day umbrella and its 3Rs, reduce, reuse, recycle. Just this week came Time Magazine’s “Earth, Inc.” and Nutrition Action’s “The Planet Lover’s...

Question: What is the significance of September 25, 1789?

by Carol A. Josel | Dec 3, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making News

  On September 17,1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention finally signed the Constitution after months of deliberation. Two years later, on September 25, Congress approved the first twelve amendments to the document. The first ten became the Bill of...

At What Cost Our Embrace of Tech on Our Kids

by Carol A. Josel | Nov 19, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact

Back in February2021, News Wise reported that, “As teens’ use of social media has grown over the past decade, so too has the suicide rate among younger people.” Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among those ages 10 to 34. Many have suggested...
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