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 | Nov 25, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “There is an obsession with bad teachers. It is destroying the teaching profession.” ~ Diane Ravitch, education historian ** “Right now we have a misalignment. Testing now has replaced instruction, and that’s a bad place for us to...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 28, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
** “… These days, any school with low test scores is called a ‘failing school’ without any inquiry into the circumstances of the school. Instead of closing the school or privatizing it, the responsible officials should act to improve the...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 22, 2013 | Quotable Quotes
“I have come to the conclusion that the Common Core Standards effort is fundamentally flawed by the process by which they have been foisted upon the nation. President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan often stay that the Common Core Standards were...
