by Carol A. Josel | Sep 13, 2020 | Commentary, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
Based on state and federal data from 2017 to 2019, Quality Counts 2020’s final grading of America’s schools—regarding academics, school finance, and long-term socio-economic indicators—is out now, and … Our overall average schooling grade is 75.9 points out of...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 10, 2020 | In The News, Interesting Facts, It’s a Fact, Making Education News, Making News, Quotable Quotes
Nowadays it’s tough keeping up with the shape schooling will take this fall, as governors keep changing their COVID-19 decrees and superintendents craft and recraft their opening plans. The choices: full time in-person, full-time remote instruction, a combo of the two...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 6, 2020 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
Upcoming posts: To Keep a Lid on COVID, Keep Schools Closed in September? Pediatricians Tell Schools: “Open Wide!” School Reopening Talk Has Teachers Asking Safety Questions...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 15, 2020 | Articles, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes, Uncategorized
Teacher bashing all but became a sport played by “reformers” who came up with such remedies as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 under President Bush, followed by the Obama/Duncan team’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top, Common Core Standards, related online...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 29, 2020 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts, Quotable Quotes
What are you calling what we’re doing nowadays days while thinking about all the things we can’t do? “Staying put?” “Hunkering down?” “Sheltering-in-place?” Whatever name you give it, with our lives are so upended, many of us don’t even know what day of the week...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Quotable Quotes
And just who is Joel Westheimer and to tell us to scrap all those worksheets coming into homes everywhere during these hunkered down, shuttered schools, Twilight Zone-like days? A man in the know, that’s who. Professor Westheimer is University Research Chair in...
