by Carol A. Josel | Oct 10, 2017 | Articles
WITH THANKS TO THE NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION & DIANE RAVITCH: I earlier posted Steven Singer’s account of being blocked by Facebook when he tried to post a criticism of school choice. The Network for Public Education tried to post an ad critical of school...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 10, 2017 | Articles
WITH THANKS STEVEN SINGER AND DIANE RAVITCH: Steven Singer was blocked by Facebook for a week because of the post you are about to read. This post “violated community standards.” Steven Singer was censored by an algorithm. Or, Steven Singer was censored by the...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 6, 2016 | Articles
Laura Chapman, a retired teacher and curriculum advisor in the arts, recently posted a piece for education historian Diane Ravitch on this brave new data-obsessed world of ours. What it suggests/reveals should give us all pause, even those without school-aged kids....
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 3, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Modern research indicates that more areas of the brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard. We’re not thinking this through. It’s beyond belief that states have allowed cursive to slip from the...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 16, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback [to the Common Core] is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who–all of a sudden their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as...
