by Carol A. Josel | Apr 10, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
*** The Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District has diverted $25 million from the Los Angeles School Police Department to fund its Black Achievement Plan designed to “empower community groups, improve student literacy, and reduce...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 3, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
About how children grow into hate-filled adults, Bosnian genocide survivor Amra Sabic-El-Rayess writes that “… My research suggests the answer is in radicalizing education where extremist narratives minimize the relevance of teachers. These narratives are...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 26, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, Making Education News, Making News
First came Oregon’s “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” suggesting that having kids show their work is a crutch for teachers, that there isn’t a right or wrong answer, and that grading “reinforces inequity…” In its wake came Illinois’s...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 19, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, Making Education News
Way ahead of the curve, Rhode Island’s Governor Gina Raimondo took a stand for kids and in-person schooling way back in June and got schools reopened on September 14. As she put it: ** “Every day a child is out of school is a problem for that child.” ** “To...
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....
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Without comment–and no grammatical, punctuation, wording changes–what follows is a sampling from the 82-page antiracist “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: *** “White supremacy culture infiltrates math classroom in everyday teacher action....
