Joanne Jacobs
Screen time all the time
"Screen time here to stay," writes Cari Spencer on The 74. Teachers are trying to use the technology to engage students, even as they...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
Rich kid, poor kid
Upward mobility is a matter of who you know, conclude the authors of a newly published study on social capital. (See the data here.)...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
Administrators return to teaching to fill shortages
Teacher shortages are worse than ever this year, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post. "Pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
Can teachers make 'differentiation' work -- and not go crazy?
In my newspaper days, I talked to principals at elementary schools with above-average reading and math scores and a significant...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
Don't say 'cisheteronormativity'
What's the right age for students to learn that the gender binary is a product of white colonialism? In Portland, Oregon public schools,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
We don't lower standards for pilots
States are dropping licensure tests for elementary teachers writes Abigail Swisher on the National Council on Teacher Quality blog. In...
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