Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 30, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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 29, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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 28, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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 27, 2022
- 2 min
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 26, 2022
- 2 min
'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 25, 2022
- 1 min
Merry Christmas to all
"Carol of the Bells" is based on a Ukrainian folk song.
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 24, 2022
- 2 min
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 23, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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 22, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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 21, 2022
- 1 min
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 20, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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 19, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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