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When Coronavirus Cuts Your “Study Abroad” Program Short
Can you imagine getting to study abroad somewhere as exotic as Morocco, and then getting stuck there due to coronavirus? Danford, an...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20202 min read
Let’s Watch a High School A Capella Group Perform
#music #video

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 24, 20201 min read
Closing the Racial Achievement Gap, Or Not
A contrarian view, to be sure, but I can’t say the author’s wrong: In 2015, MCPS (Montgomery County, MD, Public Schools) embarked on a...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 22, 20202 min read
Distance Learning
This article makes a lot of sense. I especially appreciate the author’s differentiation between “distance learning” and “online...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 21, 20202 min read
Paper and Pencil
K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes. Too many students are allowed...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20202 min read
Postsecondary Math Education
Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh. It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Protecting Student Civil Rights During the Coronavirus Shutdowns
From the US Department of Education: Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — The Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20202 min read
Teaching About Gambling
Adding lessons in probability to this course of instruction might make it “stick” better: Education on gambling will become a compulsory...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 18, 20201 min read
“Restructuring” Public Education
This author invites a total restructuring of K-14 education: Any restructuring effort must start with getting the funding right, which...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20202 min read
NEA: It’s Joe
The National Education Association announced Saturday that it is backing Joe Biden for president, handing the Democratic frontrunner a...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20201 min read
Songs About School
Trying to stay away from (and allow readers a break from) the obvious story of the day, I thought it might be fun to list some songs...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Lunch Shaming
Free and reduced lunch. Students across the country face the prospect of “lunch shaming” when their parents don’t pay whatever lunch bill...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Consequences
What is left out of a news story can be just as important as what is in the news story. Case in point: On February 28, 54 graduate...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 14, 20201 min read
What A Difference A Day Makes
As of yesterday, this was the governing philosophy in Sacramento County regarding coronavirus: California’s Sacramento County is calling...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20202 min read
A Tale of Two Cities
First, San Francisco: A day after announcing San Francisco public schools would stay open as long as possible, officials announced...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 12, 20201 min read
Lack of Algebra Skills
Joanne’s off to Africa and handed me the reins, and my first post will be a link to a rant about declining algebra skills in my school...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 11, 20201 min read
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