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True or false? Credible or cockamamie?
California teachers are supposed to incorporate "media literacy" into lessons in history, English, science and math, reports Saleen...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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Anti-racist math: 2 + 2 = whiteness
Apples and oranges featured heavily in my elementary school math curriculum, and yet I knew math was about the numbers, not about the...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 29, 20232 min read
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'B-flation' misleads parents: 89% say their child is at grade level
Seventy-nine percent of parents say their child is receiving mostly B's or better, and 89 percent believe their child is at or above...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 29, 20232 min read
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Segregation now: Evanston High offers all-black and all-Latino classes
Black students can opt to take all-black classes -- with a black teachers -- in math and writing at Evanston Township High School near...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 28, 20232 min read
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'Liberal arts' education is now 'classical,' which makes it 'right wing'
"Classical" charter schools are a right-wing plot to "destroy democratically governed public schools while turning back the clock of...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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Lonely on campus: Students are siloed, silenced
Afraid to offend each other, college students are "siloed and silenced," creating an epidemic of loneliness on campus, writes Samuel...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20232 min read
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Colleges add career coaches: Students say 'career success' is a priority
Colleges are adding career counselors and urging students to start career planning early, reports Hechinger's Jon Marcus. Some are...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 25, 20232 min read
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AI tutors will help motivated students, but . . .
"Motivated learners" will be able to "substitute AI for human tutors and teachers," predict Sean Geraghty and Mike Goldstein, co-leaders...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20232 min read
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Thankful
I hope you're gathered with friends and family to celebrate this year. Yes, life is not all gravy and pie, but most of us have blessings...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 23, 20231 min read
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Ivy dreams, but what's realistic?
"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22, 20232 min read
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AP tests are tough: Is the bar too high for disadvantaged students?
"The basic philosophy of the Advanced Placement Program is simply that all students are not created equal," said the program's director,...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20233 min read
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Missing dyslexia
Schools are failing to diagnose dyslexia, which makes it hard for as many as 20 percent of students to master reading, writes Sarah Carr...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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Only 1.2% to repeat 3rd grade due to Tennessee 'reading gate'
Sixty percent of Tennessee third graders faced the prospect of repeating the grade, but only 1.2 percent failed to get past the "reading...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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The therapist is online
New York City is offering free online therapy to teenagers 13 to 17 years old, reports Michael Elsen-Rooney on Chalkbeat. Teenagers can...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 19, 20231 min read
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Unsafe: Schools in high-crime communities try to cope with violence
It's all on video: A mob of teenagers punches and kicks a 17-year-old boy in an alley near his Las Vegas high school. Jonathan Lewis,...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 18, 20233 min read
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No hablo ingles? No es un problema at California community colleges
Immigrants can find classes in Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Armenian, Korean and other languages at some California community colleges. ...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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Disarming grades
"Handwringing" about grade inflation is "inflated," suggests Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post. She offers a piece by Jack Schneider...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20232 min read
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Dumb and dumber: NY rethinks Regents exams
New York students will be able to graduate from high school without passing Regents exams, the state education department proposes....

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20232 min read
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat Internet memes
"America's K-12 education system is uniquely ill-suited to help students make sense of complicated world events and navigate contentious...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 15, 20233 min read
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Advanced math puts all achievers on path to equity, excellence
All high achievers should be placed in challenging math classes that prepare them to take algebra in eighth grade, write Brenda Berg and...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20231 min read
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