by Carol A. Josel | Jan 10, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Thanks to the COVID vaccine, the light is on at the end of the tunnel, but it’s still a long way off and for many kids that translates into more on and off again remote instruction, with mental health and more on the chopping block… Turns out that 39% of districts...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 4, 2021 | Academics, Articles, In The News, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
So, who is this fellow on tap to replace Betsy DeVos as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Education, jumping ahead of both NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia and AFT president Randi Weingarten? Well, for starters, he was an English Language Learner when a student himself,...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 26, 2020 | Articles, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
Recently Education Week’s Madeline Will wrote a piece called, “How Teachers’ Unions Are Influencing Decisions on School Reopenings.” Here some excerpts from the article about what’s being said about the unions and reopenings: “Teachers’ unions have an outsized...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 21, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
It snowed a lot in the northeast last week, making for a perfect snow day, a time to unleash kids and teachers alike from devices of all sorts to play–making snow balls, snowmen, snow angels, and maybe get in some sledding, too. But the likes of Philadelphia...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 19, 2020 | Commentary, In The News, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
Stuck at home and screened-in for much of the day, kids are paying a huge price in the fight against COVID-19–but they’re not the super-spreaders. Still, many, including a number of teachers, are all in with remote instruction, but justifiably so? Give a...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 13, 2020 | Making Education News, Making News, Quotable Quotes
As the heartbreaking pandemic wears on and new restrictions are added, subtracted, and resurrected, give a listen to those who know well the cost of closures to students, their parents, and teachers: “The United States has extracted an enormous sacrifice from its...
