Joanne Jacobs
Start college in 9th grade, says community college chancellor
All California high school students should be enrolled in community college courses, by default, starting in ninth grade, says Sonya...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 15
- 1 min
UK blames lenient pandemic grading for soaring college dropout rate
Earning A-levels was easier for British students during the pandemic. Passing college classes is harder. Worried by a 30 percent college...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Afraid to teach: 'It's safer to avoid current events'
Polarization is chilling classroom dialogue, according to a series of interviews with teachers by the Constructive Dialogue Institute...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Shakespeare's smut: 'Out, out, gosh-darned spot'
There's no need to edit the dirty jokes out of Shakespeare's plays to comply with Florida's new law, according to the state Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13
- 2 min
Warning: Too much 'trauma' talk encourages fragility
I was wrong about trigger warnings, writes Jill Filipovic in The Atlantic. Writing for a feminist blog in 2008, she thought warning...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Easy come, easy go: Googling is bad for learning
Students don't need to learn facts, educators have been saying since the Cro-Magnon first learned to search the Internet. "They can just...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Chatbot 'Ed' will tell LA parents how their kids are doing in school
An interactive, multilingual chatbot named "Ed" will tell parents about their child's grades, test results and attendance" and serve as a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 11
- 3 min
AI can be a teaching and learning tool -- or a crutch
Bots powered by artificial intelligence are getting smarter and smarter. Will people get dumb and dumber? Rick Hess of the American...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 10
- 1 min
Special-ed numbers doubled in 40 years: Are 20% of New York kids really disabled?
Fifteen percent of K-12 students are in special education, nearly double what it was in the late '70s, according to a Pew Research Center...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Kerfuffle's climax: AP Psych is OK in Florida
Florida high schools can teach Advanced Placement Psychology -- including the unit on gender and sexuality -- says the state education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Competing for kindergarteners
Kindergarten enrollment has fallen by 17 percent in the last six years in district school in New York City, reports the New York Post. In...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 7
- 2 min
'We took care of our kids' -- but they lost a year in reading, math
Juab School District in Utah focused on supporting students emotionally when schools reopened in fall of 2020. “We took care of our...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 6
- 2 min
Parents, just say 'no'
"Gentle parenting" is bad parenting, writes Elizabeth Grace Matthew, the mother of three young boys, in Law & Liberty. Parents who are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 5
- 2 min
Let the kids play and the teenagers work
Teenagers wouldn't be so anxious, depressed and fragile if they'd spent more time playing outside with friends -- without adult...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 4
- 1 min
Absent teachers: Why learning is still disrupted
A rise in teacher absenteeism is disrupting learning, concludes TNTP, Talent Framework: Designing the Workforce of Tomorrow to Support...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 4
- 1 min
'D' is for 'didn't show up or do the work'
“You’ll have a kid who does nothing for the whole semester, and then last two weeks of May or June, they’ll do a couple assignments and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3
- 1 min
Who wants to work?
A college diploma doesn't signify academic training or job readiness any more, writes Mitch Daniels, former president of Purdue and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3
- 2 min
How to fix higher ed: Make public college free
"Higher education is deeply screwed up," writes William Deresiewicz on Persuasion. The first step to fixing it, he argues, would be to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 2
- 1 min
1/5 of community college students are still in high school
Community colleges are drawing fewer students who are 18 to 24 years old -- and a lot more who are earning "dual enrollment" credits...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 2
- 2 min
College-going is down, and that could be a good thing
The U.S. could close the college readiness gap -- if the college-going rate keeps falling, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli. Of course,...
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