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Surrendering Concord's Minutemen
Concord High School in Northern California is under pressure to give up its "Minutemen" mascot, reports Stephanie Magallon for NBC Bay...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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Teens don't want to work, drive, have sex with a real-life person
Not long ago, teen-age boys dreamed of buying a car and "roaring away from school during lunch period, with a girl riding shotgun, on our...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 29, 20232 min read
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Teach about gender identity -- but just the facts, person who produces eggs
Florida banned teaching about sexuality and gender in K-3 last year, and authorized only age "appropriate" lessons in higher grades. Now...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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'Our nation's children are all our children'
"There's no such thing as someone else's child," said President Joe Biden in honoring the new Teacher of the Year, an Oklahoma math...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20232 min read
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Poll finds strong, bipartisan support for school choice
Democrats and Republicans strongly support school choice, according to a new I&I/TIPP poll, reports Terry Jones. Here's the question,...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 26, 20231 min read
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Knowledge isn't just for Republicans
Teaching knowledge is not just for Republicans or conservatives, writes Natalie Wexler on Minding the Gap. Anyone who values equity...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 26, 20232 min read
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Turning around a 'failing' school -- and not turning back
Now a "turnaround school," Charles E. Brown Elementary School was ranked in the bottom 6 percent of schools in Alabama in 2019. Getting...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 25, 20232 min read
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'Covid kids' won't catch up by the end of 12th grade, unless . . .
It's a "terrible truth," writes Margaret Raymond on The 74. "Most of the programs school districts have implemented to address COVID...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 25, 20232 min read
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Teachers who don't want to quit
Teachers at turn down higher-paying jobs to work at a Texas school that "supports professional growth, values staff input and celebrates...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 24, 20232 min read
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'Poor, pitiful me' message discourages would-be teachers
The "underpaid-teacher meme" is discouraging college students interested in teaching from pursuing the career, according to new studies...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 24, 20232 min read
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Madness, brilliance and tragedy
Jonathan Rosen's best friend was brilliant, even after he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in his early 20s, he writes in his...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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Autism doesn't define me -- or make me a worthwhile person
Emma Camp was diagnosed with autism in college, and embraced the explanation for her insecurities and personality quirks, she writes in a...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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Higher ed's future: Microcredentials?
Microcredentials, which certify completion of short-term training in marketable skills, are the "new new thing in higher education,"...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22, 20232 min read
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Dead wood in the groves of academe
The U.S. has led the world in higher education but our "university system is beginning to molder," writes Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg....

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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Museum plans charter school, loses public school field trips
Worcester (Mass.) public school students won't be going on field trips to nearby Old Sturbridge Village any more, reports Neal McNamara...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 21, 20231 min read
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Don't ignore the smart kids
Victoria McDougald thought kindergarten would be exciting and joyful for her son, "an eager, rapid learner," but she learned that the...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 20, 20232 min read
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'Transition Me Elmo' could be the next hot new toy
The new Transition Me Elmo doll will introduce children "to the exciting new world of gender reassignment," reports Babylon Bee. "If...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20231 min read
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'Lazy' parents want librarians, teachers to protect their kids
"Parental rights" advocates have a"dirty secret," charges Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post. They're too lazy to teach their kids...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20232 min read
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Choice and common culture
We need to find a way to have school choice and to teach our "shared inheritance" as Americans, writes Fordham's Checker Finn. He worries...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 18, 20231 min read
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Church, state and public school: Is the wall crumbling?
An Oklahoma board rejected a proposed Catholic charter school, citing the need for clarification on how a tax-funded Catholic school...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 18, 20232 min read
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