by Carol A. Josel | Sep 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
For starters, an early August 2021 Fox News poll found that: 59% of registered Democrat voters hold positive views of socialism. 49% of those voters believe in capitalism *** Oregon’s Democratic Governor Kate Brown recently signed a bill removing proficiency standards...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
*** A new Quizlet data study found that: High schoolers in such states as Florida, Georgia, and Texas that offered some or all in-person instruction during the pandemic returned to “pre-CCOVID” levels during fall 2020. For Florida, it was a 95% of pre-pandemic...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley, in his July 13 “Critical Race Theory Is a Hustle,” wrote: “A majority of American fourth- and eighth-graders can’t read or do math at grade level, according to the Education Department. And that assessment is from 2019, before the...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Recently, the EdWeek Research Center analyzed the demographic changes in our suburban public schools, updating a 2012 study which was the basis of The Resegregation of Suburban Schools, co-edited by Penn State education professor Erica Frankenberg and UCLA professor...
by Carol A. Josel | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
“… Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.” ~ Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1946 *** In 2009’s Read Across America Day, Obama called Seuss “one of America’s revered wordsmiths.” In 2016, he said that the writer “used his incredible talent to...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
On November 18, Dr. Anthony Fauci, reassuringly said, “The cavalry is on its way. It’s not here yet, but it’s going to come. We have an even better than expected efficacy signal on two vaccines. We’re likely to already start having distribution of doses, hopefully by...
