Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 29
- 2 min
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 28
- 1 min
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 27
- 2 min
'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 26
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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 25
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
'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 24
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
'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 23
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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 22
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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 21
- 1 min
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 20
- 2 min
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 19
- 1 min
'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
- 2 min
'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 18
- 1 min
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
- 2 min
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...
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