by Carol A. Josel | Jul 28, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Data is the application that can transform education. Data can enable and support educators to personalize learning for individual students. Applications can use learning styles, interests, and other key pieces of information to target the areas in which...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 21, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Inexperience with technology might frustrate many students taking the computerized Common Core assessments. As I recently realized after debriefing with hundreds of students who had participated in pilots of computerized assessment items, even many digital...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 14, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “The American Statistical Association just slammed the high-stakes ‘value-added method’ (VAM) of evaluating teachers that has been increasingly embraced in states as part of school reform efforts. VAM purports to be able to take student...
by Carol A. Josel | Jul 7, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Reading used to mean sitting down with a book and turning pages as a story unfolded. Today it may mean sitting down with a device that offers multimedia experiences and blurs the line between books and toys. All of this has led to a major disruption in how,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 30, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “….Very few educators or parents have learning or scholarship in their hearts as the end-game for their children, except in the sense of their kids getting good grades. Most of us would prefer our children become the very best people they can be,...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 23, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “On Thursday, Secretary of State Arne Duncan informed Washington that he was revoking the waiver that had freed it from impossible-to-meet requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the quixotic mandate that 100 percent of students be...
