by Carol A. Josel | Sep 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
According to current National Education Association data, the 3 highest and lowest teacher salaries: New York: $87,738 Massachusetts: $86,315 California: $85,892 South Dakota: $49,993 Florida: $49,583 Mississippi: $47,655 According to 2017-18 data from the National...
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...
