by Carol A. Josel | Jun 15, 2020 | Articles, Carol A Josel, Making Education News, Quotable Quotes
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 20, 2019 | Quotable Quotes
Read on, and then have your say, too… “We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” ~ Ronald Reagan...
