by Carol A. Josel | Mar 11, 2020 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Making News, Parenting
Kids are hooked on screens, no doubt about it, with some spending hours on end playing video games–some 41% of boys and 21% of girls, and that prompted Oxford University to study the effects. Among the findings: Spending up to three hours a day has no effect,...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 5, 2020 | Articles, Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
New York Times journalist Craig S. Smith’s recent “The Machines Are Learning and So Are the Students,” explains that artificial intelligence has found its way into the teaching life by taking over such mundane tasks as grading. It is, indeed, a brave new world, and,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 26, 2020 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Suicide is now the 2nd leading cause of death among 10- to 19-year-olds, and yet… While the National Institutes of Health spent $68 million last year on suicide, that was less than was spent on many other public health issues. For instance, kidney disease kills about...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 4, 2020 | Articles, Making News
Back in the early days of the 21st century, futurists made predictions about how the world would look come 2020. Among them was Ray Kurzweil, and recently USA Today’s Grace Hauck shared the hits and misses of twenty of his forecasts: Life expectancy would top 100… It...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
When it comes to education, it’s often a matter of follow the leader, and. In this case, I’m talking about the great state of California and its “bold move to mandate later start times for middle and high schools.” Can the rest be far behind? At first glance, it makes...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 16, 2019 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News
Here’s a brief update on the latest in the world of education: Because 57% of teens and 63% of parents worry about a shooting happening in their school, just about every public schools conducted some kind of lockdown drill. This, despite the fact that, says a...
