Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Let’s Watch a High School A Capella Group Perform
#music #video
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
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 21, 2020
- 2 min
Distance Learning
This article makes a lot of sense. I especially appreciate the author’s differentiation between “distance learning” and “online...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 20, 2020
- 2 min
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 19, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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 18, 2020
- 1 min
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 17, 2020
- 2 min
“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, 2020
- 1 min
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 16, 2020
- 1 min
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 15, 2020
- 1 min
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 14, 2020
- 1 min
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 13, 2020
- 2 min
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 12, 2020
- 1 min
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 11, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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