Joanne Jacobs
‘Every weld is a challenge’
Philadelphia schools are focusing career-tech training on preparing students to move from high school to apprenticeships and skilled...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
Hot jobs of the future: welder, plumber
Tennessee’s technical colleges focus on job skills, such as mechatronics. We’ve reached peak college, writes urbanist Joel Kotkin in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
Black male teachers are not security guards
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2022
- 3 min
Out the classroom door, but still teaching
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Mayors: Don’t limit new charters
Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Indy charters: 116-day boost in math
Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’
A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
No learning loss in Sweden
Photo: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels In Sweden, which kept schools open throughout the pandemic, first- through third-graders made normal...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2022
- 2 min
The metaverse is here — but what is it?
Photo: Julia M. Cameron/Pexels Educators will be teaching in the metaverse very soon, ready or not, write Brookings researchers in a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
States limit ‘active shooter’ drills
“Active shooter drills” terrify students, but do they make them any safer? Photo: Education Week When schools do fire drills, they don’t...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
School police: Do they make students safer?
In response to the shooting of 19 children and two adults, Uvalde, Texas school officials want to hire more police officers, writs Robby...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
It’s a hot summer job market for youth
Working as a lifeguard was a dangerous job in “Stranger Things.” A red-hot summer job market awaits teenagers, reports Paul Wiseman and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
Working teens do better in school
Working part-time during the school year is good for teenagers, as long as they limit their work hours, concludes a newly published...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
For years, a teacher groomed girls for sex
Matt Drange’s high school journalism teacher was a cut-up who always had time to hang out with students. Especially teenage girls from...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Teens back free speech for unpopular views
U.S. high school students and their teachers agree that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions, according to the Knight...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2022
- 3 min
FIRE expands free-speech advocacy
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (still FIRE) as...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try...
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