Joanne Jacobs
What is the right balance between ingredients and cake?
What's the right balance between teaching knowledge and teaching skills? That's the wrong question, writes Daisy Christodoulou on No More...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 13, 2023
- 2 min
DEI rejects merit, excellence, hard work, individual dignity
DEI isn't about diversity, equity or inclusion, writes Bari Weiss on Tablet. It is "an ideological movement bent on recategorizing every...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 12, 2023
- 2 min
Tutors for toddlers: Crazy parents will raise crazy kids
"The race to the Ivy League starts early," writes Asia Grace in the New York Post. Affluent parents are hiring tutors for their toddlers...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 11, 2023
- 2 min
Teen angst is normal: 'Wellness' may backfire
Mental health doesn't mean feeling good all the time, writes psychologist Lisa Damour in The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 10, 2023
- 1 min
'There's got to be a pony in there'
Public schools face a long, tough road to recover from school closures and pandemic chaos, writes Fordham's Dale Chu. Post-pandemic...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 9, 2023
- 1 min
'B' is for below grade level (and chronically absent)
"Rosie" averaged an 83 in core classes and tested more than two months above grade level in fifth grade in 2019. She was absent three...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 9, 2023
- 1 min
A-F grades don't provide enough useful feedback, say educators
Only 13 percent of teachers say A-F grades are "very effective" in giving useful feedback to students, writes Alyson Klein in Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 8, 2023
- 1 min
Teachers know little about how students learn
My teacher preparation program in the late '90s "never talked about how kids learn," writes M-J Mercanti-Anthony, the principal of a New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2023
- 1 min
Something to sing about
HBO Max will premiere a documentary tonight about 10th-graders at a Philadelphia magnet school who "write, compose, produce and perform...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2023
- 1 min
Job skills, dual enrollment boost California community colleges
Enrollment is rebounding at California's community colleges due to career programs and dual enrollment, reports Michael Burke on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2023
- 2 min
'Dual credits' aren't very helpful, but that can be fixed
Dual-credit programs are supposed to put students "on the fast track" to an affordable college degree, but many teens are earning credits...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
To kill 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Ninth-graders aren't reading To Kill a Mockingbird this year in Mukilteo, Washington, an affluent, mostly white town north of Seattle. ...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 5, 2023
- 2 min
Mom knows everything: Apps let parents track kids' schoolwork -- and drive them crazy
If only parents were involved in their children's education, teachers said, students would do so much better. If only teachers...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 4, 2023
- 1 min
History: What do you know, and how do you know it?
Each year, half a million middle and high school students "examine primary and secondary sources," analyze a historical subject and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2023
- 2 min
Black homeschoolers plan microschool, if Texas OKs ESAs
Texas may provide $10,400 per student for parent-directed education, if Gov. Greg Abbott can push a compromise bill through a third...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2023
- 1 min
Urban charters produce more brains for the buck
Urban charter schools use "fewer dollars to achieve better outcomes" than traditional public schools enrolling similar students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 2, 2023
- 2 min
Same again: Does teacher 'looping' improve learning?
Keeping teachers with the same cohort of students for two or three years, known as "looping," would build connections, improve learning...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 1, 2023
- 3 min
How to kill the bad-teaching monster: Don't forget the garlic
To kill a vampire permanently dead, you'll need to hammer a wooden stake in its heart, shoot it with a silver bullet melted down from a...
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