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Ready or Not: The New National Civics Guidelines

by Carol A. Josel | Jul 2, 2021 | Articles, Making Education News

  Released on March 1, “The Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy” write Education Week’s Stephen Sawchuk and Sarah Schwartz, “center on the idea of ‘reflective patriotism,” meaning that “students should learn to feel committed to this country and the...

Standardized State Tests: Waste of Time or Effective Measure of Student Performance?

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2021 | Articles, Making Education News

  The ball got rolling with President George W. Bush’s 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), next made its way to Obama’s Common Core Standards (CCS) online assessments and 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and then landed on Biden’s lap. He, despite a year of...

Did Pandemic Ed Tech Get It All Wrong?

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...

What Keeps Teachers from Quitting?

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...

Quality Counts Grades the States, the Country, on the Chance-for-Success Index

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...

8 States Restrict Classroom Racism and Sexism Discussions

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...
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