Joanne Jacobs
‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’
Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 21, 2022
- 1 min
It’s a longer, steeper path to a ‘good job’
It takes young people a lot longer than their elders to be self-supporting, concludes two new reports from Georgetown’s Center on...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
Teach students to meet deadlines, handle stress
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
‘Financial lit’ vs. ‘don’t buy what you can’t afford’
Georgia is making “financial literacy” a graduation requirement, reports Carmen Reinecke on CNBC. It’s the 13th state to mandate...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
Class of ’22: Fewer males aim for college
After two pandemic years, the college-going gender gap is widening, reports YouthTruth’s Class of 2022 survey. Compared to the class of...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Biden picks teachers’ unions over students
The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Public schools lost 1.3 million students
Nearly 1.3 million students left district-run public schools in the last two years, estimates the Return to Learn tracker. Districts’...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
‘P’ is for ‘push off’
High school teachers in Casa Grande, Arizona are “revisiting” failing grades to enable more students to graduate. #failure #gradechanges...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
Grad rates rose as standards fell
Although students “learned considerably less” during the pandemic, high school graduation rates rose in 2020 and returned to the previous...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
ACT: Pandemic fueled grade inflation
High school grade inflation accelerated during the pandemic, according to ACT. “The findings echo a recent federal study that also showed...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Zoom U was very bad for students
College students are not OK, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches first-year writing at Southern Methodist University, in a New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Remote ed was double-whammy for poor students
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
The young Puritans
Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 14, 2022
- 1 min
She watched kids play — security was called
Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Teaching kids to share crayons isn’t intrusive
Teaching social and emotional skills — done properly — is an essential part of teaching, argues Fordham intern Nathaniel Grossman. It’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘Computer science for all’ goes beyond coding
I took computer science in high school to meet boys. And I did. Nerdy boys. It was the era of paper-tape readers and punch cards. I...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
School board loses focus on academics
Shanthi Gonzales “Schools aren’t meeting students’ needs” in Oakland, California, writes Shanthi Gonzales, who’s resigning from the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
Causing discomfort remains legal
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?
Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on when children are ready for painful topics, writes Marta W....
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