Joanne Jacobs
From Walmart Academy to a bachelor's degree in business
With credit for workplace training and Walmart’s tuition-assistance program, Bonnie Boop earned an online business degree, reports NPR's...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 113 min read
Conservative students learn to argue in college -- liberals stay in their bubble
Conservative students sharpen their ideas and listen to alternative perspectives -- they learn -- on very liberal college campuses,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 103 min read
Up, up and away: 'Recalibration' is raising AP exam scores
Advanced Placement scores were released this week, and they're higher than ever. But not necessarily because students are learning more....
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 92 min read
Why boys don't read very much: They want manly courage -- not teen angst
Boys might read more if they were introduced to classic books with male heroes.
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 82 min read
Please come to school, pretty please, with a cherry on top . . .
Schools are struggling to get students to show up every day. Twenty-six percent of students are chronically absent, missing at least 10...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 72 min read
'Learn to joke,' say teens who faked teacher TikToks with sex, pedophilia
Middle school is the worst. Kids hit puberty and turn deeply stupid for a few years before they learn to handle it. Even so, the seventh...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 61 min read
Tests may be 'optional,' but not if you want to get in to an elite college
Yale is not “being honest about the reality of our admissions process” because the university is “denying 98 percent of the students who...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 52 min read
The college pitch: How students write personal essays
Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays, according to...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 42 min read
Proud to be Americans
When Bruno Manno was growing up in the '50s and '50s, his family would gather at his grandparents' Italian tavern, to eat, drink and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 32 min read
Not-so-trans athletes will compete in the Olympics
Nikki Hiltz qualified for the Paris Olympics in women's 1500-meter race, reports Jo Yurcaba for NBC. Hiltz is "transgender and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22 min read
'We are talking 4- and 5-year-olds who are throwing chairs, biting, hitting ... '
Covid toddlers are now in school, and teachers say many are not doing very well, report Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Mervosh in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 12 min read
Teachers don't have time to be therapists, cops, nurses and social workers
“Students who are habitually ungovernable should be removed from teachers’ classrooms so teachers can actually teach and students can...
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