by Carol A. Josel | Jul 30, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Teacher Quote
It’s not quite August, but back-to-school shopping is already in high gear; many teachers are getting ready, too–and worrying about what will be facing them once back in the classroom. Uppermost in their minds, ongoing and escalating disruptive student...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 12, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News, Parenting
These ongoing unsettled times keep impacting our collective well-being and taking a big toll on many of our kids, too. After long-endured remote instruction, masking, and isolation, the “new normal” arrived. Up now: “norm erosion” to explain what’s behind the 14...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Commentary, Making Education News
Education seems to matter more than ever, now taking center-stage–and not just about money matters. No; take for instance, the page one, above-the-fold USA Today June 12, bold-faced headline that read, “Classroom Scourge: Chronic Absenteeism.” Spot on… Since...
by Carol A. Josel | May 26, 2024 | Academics, Making Education News
The national debt is closing in on $35 trillion–up $8 trillion in just the last three years. Now add in the annual interest on those trillions, a whopping $659 billion just last year. However, none of that has slowed the government’s ongoing spending spree,...
by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2024 | Carol A Josel, Making Education News
On the horizon: Linguistic Fingerprinting “to determine whether a text has been written by a specific person based on an analysis of their previous writings,” writes Ed Surge’s Jeffrey Young. (Akin to fingerprinting except related to the way we write.) As of February...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 5, 2024 | Academics, Articles, Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Technology in Education
In the news of late: TikTok under fire, with the U.S. House of Representatives, in March, approving a bi-partisan bill that would force its parent company, ByteDance, to either sell the app or be banned on all of our devices. As noted by Ryan Lovelace of The...
