Youth sports are supposed to be fun

Sports should be fun for kids, writes Linda Flanagan. Instead, young athletes give up their childhood to compete for college scholarships...

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Youth sports are supposed to be fun

Sports should be fun for kids, writes Linda Flanagan. Instead, young athletes give up their childhood to compete for college scholarships...

Joanne Jacobs

Obese kids: Are drugs, surgery the answer?

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. children and teenagers were obese by the start of the pandemic, a rate that's quadrupled since the 1960's....

Joanne Jacobs

It's only Schoolhouse Rock (but I like it)

I'm so old I don't know the words to Conjunction Junction. Schoolhouse Rock, animated musical shorts on grammar, history, civics,...

Joanne Jacobs

Teach civics -- not activism

"Fixating on activism misses the point of civics education," write Frederick M. Hess, a former civics teacher now education policy...

Joanne Jacobs

Classroom libraries aren't a crime in Florida

The "great Florida classroom library freak-out of 2023" is based on faulty reporting, confusing directives from local school officials...

Joanne Jacobs

AP African American Studies purges critical race, queer theorists

Critical race theory, queer theory and black feminist literature are out of the core curriculum in the revised version of College Board's...

Joanne Jacobs

Teach for America is shrinking

Teach for America is shrinking, write Ben Backes and Michael Hansen on Chalkboard. The nonprofit recruits college graduates for two-year...