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School Talk from Two Republicans, One Teacher, and an Education Policy Reporter

by Carol A. Josel | Mar 9, 2020 | Making Education News, Quotable Quotes, Teacher Quote

It’s all about schooling nowadays; have a listen… “Think about the school environment that we had and the respect that we had for teachers and other students. And the discipline that was enforced not only by the teachers but by our parents, who, if they...

Experts Take On Everything from Ed Tech and the Value of Play to Our Troubled Children

by Carol A. Josel | Oct 24, 2019 | Quotable Quotes, Teacher Quote

Those in-the-know speak out … “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” ~ Fred Rogers, TV personality “If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin...

School-Wise Quotes: The Latest on Standardized Testing

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 26, 2019 | Quotable Quotes

“For most teachers and students, testing remains the educational equivalent of a root canal. It’s endured and then recalled with relief. It’s not something deeply integrated with teaching that reinforces long-term educational goals like developing students’ ability to...

Paid for at Taxpayer Expense: Student Debt, the Federal and Credit Card Kind, Too

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 12, 2019 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making News, Quotable Quotes

Every other ad seems to end with a bit about taxpayers footing the bill, and I can’t help but wonder if anyone out there still remembers the time of budgeting and staying within our limits? And that, quite naturally, brings me to the notion about needing vs. wanting,...

Quoting Author Daniel Pink, Tech Investor Robert F. Smith, and Purdue President Mitch Daniels

by Carol A. Josel | May 27, 2019 | In The News, Quotable Quotes

Best-selling author Daniel Pink: “Want better academic performance from your students?” Give ‘em frickin’ recess!” Pledging $40 million, billionaire tech investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith to the Morehouse College graduating class of 2019: “My family is going...

“Shy” DeVos Goes before the Education Writers Association

by Carol A. Josel | May 22, 2019 | In The News, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes

As reported by Education Week’s Alyson Klein, U.S. Secretary of Education DeVos explained that she’s really quite shy, as she mostly talked up her Education Freedom Scholarship Plan when addressing the Education Writers Association. It gives as much as $5 billion in...
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