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Looking back at 2022
It's time for Dave Barry's annual year in review, looking back at the highlights, low lights and no lights of 2022. Good news: "The...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 31, 20222 min read


Local hero
Unable to drive in Buffalo's deadly blizzard, Jay Withey broke in to a school, went back with a snow blower to get other trapped...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 30, 20221 min read


If schools pay students, will they come?
Learning loss and absenteeism are a crisis, writes Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, a member of Boston's school board, on the Hechinger Report....

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 30, 20221 min read


Fighting fears
Zidaan Kapoor, a math-loving 15-year-old, coped with his anxiety about severe food allergies by creating a "fight fears" app for other...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 29, 20221 min read


Protected kids become anxious adults
In an “Adulting 101” workshop, Kansas State students talk about "conflict" as though "it's this terrible thing," said Brett Mallon, an...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 29, 20222 min read


Do you trust the CDC?
There were lower rates of Covid infections in more than 500 counties where school districts observed mask mandates, according to a...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20221 min read


Remasking kids in cold season
Forcing children to wear masks in school is pointless and cruel, argues Zachary Faria in the Washington Examiner. "Public school...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20222 min read


It's just kiddie sex, not pedophilia, so no worries
Jonathan Evison's Lawn Boy, doesn't belong in school libraries, say angry parents, because the graphic novel depicts an adult man having...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 27, 20222 min read


'You could shoot your eye out'
I saw National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time on Christmas Eve -- I'm always just a bit behind the culture -- and...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20222 min read


Merry Christmas to all
"Carol of the Bells" is based on a Ukrainian folk song.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 25, 20221 min read


Emily the art student, debtor and criminal
Emily owes $60,000 for an art degree she never finished. Her payments, from her job delivering food, reduce the interest but aren't...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 24, 20222 min read


AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20221 min read


Mastering newspeak at Stanford
Will Stanford continue to award master's degrees? Will my daughter's major -- American Studies -- need a new name? Stanford's IT...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20223 min read


A longer school year? Some parents aren't interested
Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras wanted to lengthen the school year to give students more time to catch up, reports AP's Bianca...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20222 min read


LA adds extra days, few students show up
Los Angeles students lost more than a year of in-person schooling. This week, about one in seven students in the huge district showed up...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20222 min read


Schools take on new role: Saving kids from fentanyl overdoses
Training school staff to identify fentanyl overdoses and administer Narcan is saving lives in Bay Area schools, report Scooty Nickerson...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 21, 20221 min read


Minnesota's bonus for non-white teachers nets 6 teachers
Teachers of color who relocate to Minnesota can earn bonuses under a new state program: $2,500 when hired, another $2,500 for staying in...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 20, 20222 min read


Who will make the best teacher? An ex-Marine or a Middlebury grad?
Military veterans with 60 college credits can qualify for a five-year temporary teaching certificate in Florida, under a new law...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 20, 20222 min read


Teacher tries 'just-in-time' math for students who didn't learn the basics
A veteran teacher at Denver's George Washington High, Joe Bolz knows his students didn't learn much math when their middle schools...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20222 min read


Middle-school math is a disaster
Disrupted learning's effect on middle-school math skills is worse than you think, writes David Wakelyn on The 74. "As many as 1 million...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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