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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...

COVID’s Relentless Hold on Schools and Their Added-On Responsibilities

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...

Remote Instruction: The Costly Learning Downside

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...

Did Pandemic Ed Tech Get It All Wrong?

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 18, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News

Writing that “getting ed tech wrong would be a bitter pandemic legacy, American Enterprise resident Scholar and Education Policy Studies director Rick Hess cites several examples of bad ed-tech habits that developed during the lockdown “compromising instruction and...

Is Pandemic Learning Loss for Real?

by Carol A. Josel | May 28, 2021 | Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News

Education Week’s Sarah D. Sparks took on the question, “How Much Real Learning Time Are Students Losing during the Pandemic?” She writes… Unfortunately, a series of new analyses suggest that the pandemic disrupted both of the most critical kinds of educational time....
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