by Carol A. Josel | Mar 2, 2020 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Talk about scary news: As of March 2: The coronavirus had spread to more than 60 countries. More than 85,000 have been infected worldwide. It is responsible for some 3,000 deaths, more than 2,800 in Mainland China So, what exactly is a coronavirus and how did it get...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 5, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
New York Times journalist Craig S. Smith’s recent “The Machines Are Learning and So Are the Students,” explains that artificial intelligence has found its way into the teaching life by taking over such mundane tasks as grading. It is, indeed, a brave new world, and,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 26, 2020 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Suicide is now the 2nd leading cause of death among 10- to 19-year-olds, and yet… While the National Institutes of Health spent $68 million last year on suicide, that was less than was spent on many other public health issues. For instance, kidney disease kills about...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 20, 2020 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Some call it progress… Thanks to President Bush’s No Child Left Behind, compounded by Obama’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top and Common Core State Standards, preschoolers are being taught to read, so they’re all ready for kindergarten, aka the “new first grade.” Nancy...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Back in 1903, in Man and Superman, Irish playwright and political activist George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” And it stuck. Fast forward to 1977 when Haywood Allen, better known as director, writer, and actor Woody Allen, wrote, in...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 23, 2019 | It’s a Fact, Making Education News
One might assume that principals and teachers working alongside each other would hold similar views about what’s happening in their schools, but not so fast finds a recent Education Week survey: While 52% of teachers said student discipline is “a major source of...
