by Carol A. Josel | Oct 28, 2019 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
From teacher strikes to how best teach reading, these stats tell us a great deal about what’s happening to and in our public schools… A recent PDK survey of 556 teachers found that 55% said they’d be willing to strike for better salaries, and even more...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 9, 2019 | It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Ed tech continues to change schooling—and our kids too, though maybe not altogether for the good: More than 35,000 Mississippi kindergartners—about 64%–didn’t meet the state’s readiness guidelines, and those who spent the 2017-18 school year in Head Start scored...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 5, 2019 | Articles, In The News, Making Education News
Jeremy Adams, a high school and college political science teacher in Bakersfied, recently crafted a piece about high school reading in the tech age, and so, with thanks, here are a few excerpts worth reading: Most of us who grew up in the United States before the...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 24, 2019 | Articles, Making Education News
Renowned author, lecturer, and progressive education proponent, Alfie Kohn says, “Many questions in education, for example, take for granted the inevitability of traditional practices. That means our job is to challenge the question’s hidden premises. ‘Wait,’ we might...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 16, 2019 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Definitely worth taking look and giving it all some thought… Of our 133,853 schools in the 2015-16 school year: Elementary: 88,665 Secondary: 26,986 Combined: 16,511 Other: 691 Of those… Traditional public: 92,147 Public charter: 7,011 Private: 34,576 About our...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 26, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Parents, make your voices heard because schools have embraced tech big-time, with a lot of reform and financial encouragement from politicians, tech folks, and textbook publishers, too. Take the $8.5 billion textbook giant Pearson’s recent shift from print to digital,...
