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...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, Making Education News, Making News
Back on May 4, Education Week’s Sarah Schwartz wrote, “Teaching has long been a profession with long hours and low pay. Compared to other jobs that require a similar level of education and training, teachers make less money. Still, many educators will say they didn’t...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 6, 2021 | In The News, Making Education News
Quality Counts grades all 50 states and the country, too, on what’s known as the Chance-for-Success Index, resulting in “a snapshot of a person’s prospect of successful outcomes over a lifetime, from early childhood to adulthood and the working world.” To...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 4, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Making Education News
Education Week’s Sarah Schwartz recently reported that “Lawmakers in eight states have introduced legislation that may make it harder for teachers to talk about racism, sexism, and bias in the classroom.” Those eight states banning “the teaching of what they deem...
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....
by Carol A. Josel | May 21, 2021 | In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
*** On April 25, after its passage through the House, Idaho’s State Senate passed HB377 banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory. On May 1, GOP governor Brad Little signed it into law. In part it reads, “No public institution of higher education, school district,...
