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If your kid's school is 'comprehensive,' is that good? (Nope)
"Comprehensive" will mean "completely lousy" in Illinois' new school accountability system.

Joanne Jacobs
9 hours ago1 min read
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UC San Diego adds remedial class in elementary and middle-school math
Without SAT or ACT scores, University of California at San Diego is seeing a "steep decline" in academic readiness.

Joanne Jacobs
12 hours ago2 min read
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AI is learning how to teach: Will bots replace human teachers?
AI is transforming teaching and learning, but maybe not for the better.

Joanne Jacobs
1 day ago2 min read
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Futureness is the future!
Why settle for 21st-century edubabble when you can sell 22nd-century skills?

Joanne Jacobs
2 days ago2 min read
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Learning lasts when teachers are 'brave enough to be boring'
Teachers who try to "out-entertain screens" will fail.

Joanne Jacobs
2 days ago1 min read
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Intensive parenting is driving parents (and their kids) crazy
Parents need to chill. Let kids try things on their own, make mistakes and learn.

Joanne Jacobs
3 days ago3 min read
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Kids prefer memes and make-up videos to 'War and Peace'
Should we worry that young people are spending less time reading for pleasure and a lot more time watching YouTube videos?

Joanne Jacobs
4 days ago2 min read
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Special ed is failing: Can we do better?
Every year, more students are labeled with a special-ed diagnosis, more money is invested, and yet the results remain the same: Millions of children unable to read, write or calculate proficiently.

Joanne Jacobs
5 days ago3 min read
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Schools that work: Juanito can read at Hoover Street Elementary
Let's learn from schools where disadvantaged children are becoming proficient readers.

Joanne Jacobs
6 days ago1 min read
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What's wrong with 'just right' books
Teachers should teach students how to read grade-level books instead of matching them with texts at their comfort level, says literacy scholar Timothy Shanahan.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 52 min read
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Getting math wrong
New York is telling teachers to adopt trendy math ideas that failed in California.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 43 min read
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Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college?
If "open access" colleges raised standards, would students work harder to qualify?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 32 min read
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Racial preferences by other names
"Socioeconomic" preferences often help low-income blacks, but low-income Asian Americans.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22 min read
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Harvard students fear tougher grading: 'I skipped classes and sobbed in bed'
Harvard students are distressed by the prospect of tougher grading standards.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12 min read
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