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Schooling in California from Ongoing Teacher Demands to Postponing the Renaming of 44 Schools

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 10, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News

  *** The Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District has diverted $25 million from the Los Angeles School Police Department to fund its Black Achievement Plan designed to “empower community groups, improve student literacy, and reduce...

Grading the Quality of Students’ Written Work Is Now Considered “Racist.”

by Carol A. Josel | Mar 26, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, Making Education News, Making News

      First came Oregon’s “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” suggesting that having kids show their work is a crutch for teachers, that there isn’t a right or wrong answer, and that grading “reinforces inequity…” In its wake came Illinois’s...

All Aboard the Marijuana Money Train in Virginia and New Jersey, with Oregon Decriminalizing All Drugs

by Carol A. Josel | Mar 13, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making News

   With dollar signs dancing in their heads, state officials across the country already have or are now considering legalizing recreational marijuana. Virginia recently joined their ranks, though the law won’t go into effect until 2024, disappointing even the ACLU...

Policy Changes on the Way with Biden and the Democrats Now at the Helm

by Carol A. Josel | Feb 21, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Making News

      1. A recent John Fritze USA Today piece headlines with “Biden Eyes High Court Panel,” and continued by saying he would proceed via a “bipartisan” commission to study Supreme Court reforms. At the same time, eight progressive organizations have joined to...

The Oregon Department of Education Offers “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” Course to Its Teachers on February 21

by Carol A. Josel | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News

Without comment–and no grammatical, punctuation, wording changes–what follows is a sampling from the 82-page antiracist “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: *** “White supremacy culture infiltrates math classroom in everyday teacher action....

Substitute Teacher Shortages and Disconnected Homeless Students

by Carol A. Josel | Jan 17, 2021 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News

An August 2020 National Education Association survey found that: 28% of educators said the pandemic made them likelier to leave teaching. Meanwhile, back in mid-November, the EdWeek Research Center survey of a nationally representative sample of 913 pre-K...
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