by Carol A. Josel | Sep 13, 2012 | Making Education News
According to the Obama administration, 300,000 education jobs have been lost since 2009; for all this hope and change, he blames the Republicans, of course. With the recent addition of Nevada, 33 states have now received No Child Left Behind waivers from the Obama...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 11, 2012 | Making Education News
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, public school students enjoy an average of 1.7 hours of recess a week, but 7% to 10% of schools have no recess at all. The national student-teacher ratio rose 4.6% between 2008 and 2010. The Obama...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 6, 2012 | Making Education News
The Chicago Teachers Union has announced that it will strike on September 10th over pay class size, and a longer school day. The National Education Policy Center has renewed its call to slow the growth of full-tie K-12, Inc. virtual schools until students’...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 4, 2012 | Making Education News
The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers’ union, has lost 100,000 members since 2010 and expects to lose about 308,000 full-time teachers by 2014. A recent Blackboard Project Tomorrow survey finds that 52% of district...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 30, 2012 | Making Education News
The Common Core Technical Core Standards were recently released; they’re divided into 16 clusters and 12 overarching, “career-ready” practices. Results on the first National Association of Education Progress (NAEP) of both hands-on and interactive...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 28, 2012 | Making Education News
A recent Blackboard Project Tomorrow survey finds that 52% of district administrators support the idea of online classes, up from 33% in 2007. A recent CDW survey found that 71% of students and 77% of teachers say they use laptops or netbooks, smartphones, student...
