Joanne Jacobs
More Michigan 3rd graders fail reading test
Third graders who are a year behind in reading are supposed to repeat the grade under Michigan’s “read by grade three” law, but few are...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read
Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: “What have you done personally or...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
Remember
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainians, but not Afghans, get fast track to U.S.
Ukrainian refugees are getting a warmer welcome than Afghans, according to a group of refugee advocates and Democratic senators, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
‘Refugee High’ copes with Afghans
Omar, who had little schooling in rural Afghanistan, is learning English at Chicago’s Sullivan High School. Photo: Taylor Glascock/WBEZ...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
(Non-mass) murders are way up
The U.S. murder rate spiked in 2020 and 2021, reports German Lopez in the New York Times. Cleaning up vacant lots and creating gardens...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
School shootings are horrible — and very rare
Terrifying parents and children is not useful: School massacres are “exceptionally rare” events, writes John Tierney in City Journal....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 28, 2022
- 2 min
Excellent lambs
Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
School shooters don’t just ‘snap’
School shooters don’t just “snap,” journalist Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
#1 school for rigor is charter on Mexican border
At IDEA McAllen College Prep, a charter school near the Mexican border, 77 percent of students come from low-income families and nearly...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
‘Incompetence, arrogance, woke rhetoric’
The San Francisco school board’s vote to abolish merit-based admissions at Lowell High School amidst claims merit is “racist” angered...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
22 weeks of lost learning
Remote students’ learning losses are worse than educators are willing to acknowledge, writes Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
Don’t know much about teaching math
Are elementary teachers well prepared to teach math? Many elementary teachers aren’t confident about their math skills, and transmit...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Multiple math paths to where?
California’s proposed new math framework offers a “choose-your-own-adventure approach” that is “fundamentally flawed,” argue Jennifer...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Magical thinking on teaching math
We know a lot about how to teach students who have trouble learning math, writes researcher Tom Loveless. Why not use that? Photo:...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Science teachers: Don’t say ‘parent’
Who are these people? Photo: Serrano1004/Pixabay Don’t say “parent,” advises a feature article in the National Science Teaching...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 23, 2022
- 2 min
Are reading wars over? ‘Balanced literacy’ is a loser
Teachers were trained to teach students how to guess words they couldn’t read. The reading wars are over, writes Dana Goldstein in the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22, 2022
- 1 min
If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint
Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals,...
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