Joanne Jacobs
Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 8, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Mother’s (or Birthing Person) Day
I’m on vacation with my daughter — her treat — for Mother’s Day and my recent round-number birthday, so I’ll skip the blogging today....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min
‘Russian’ school gets a new name
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9. Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Ukrainians are coming
California schools have begun to welcome Ukrainian refugee children, reports Carolyn Jones on EdSource. So far, it’s only a few students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
‘I’m sending my kids to screen-free schools’
Photo: Natureaddict/Pixabay Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist. As a teacher,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
Remote learning was a disaster
Photo: Marta Wave/Pexels Remote learning was an academic disaster, writes David Leonhardt. And it may have been unnecessary. In March...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?
While social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Aviation students solve problems — before the crash
Students are learning math, engineering and problem solving through a curriculum designed by the nonprofit Aircraft Owners and Pilots...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Career readiness starts in kindergarten
Credit: The World of Work American and British children dream of careers as vloggers or YouTubers, concludes a 2019 LEGO survey of...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
To get special-ed teachers, pay more
Teaching special-needs students is challenging and stressful. Special education teachers are in short supply across the country, and have...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
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