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People with ADHD can hyperfocus -- if they're motivated
ADHD can poses challenges -- or be an advantage.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 282 min read
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Parents, civilize your sons
Boys need authoritative parents who will teach them how to behave in the world.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 272 min read
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No need to listen, read, write or think: AI will do college for you
Will students offload all their college work -- classes, reading, writing, discussions, tests -- on AI?

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 262 min read
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Texas: College-prep classes set students up for college failure
Dual enrollment helps Texas students do well after graduation, but taking college-prep classes has no benefit, says a new study.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 252 min read
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How advanced is AP? Exam scores are inflated, says new competitor
Inflating grades and dumbing-down tests is giving high achievers no way to show their competence.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 242 min read
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Study what works -- and what keeps on working
In education, reliable achievement is far more important than peak performance, and far more rare."

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 233 min read
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Toys or tech?
Toy Story 5 pits a child's old toys with a new tablet that wants to monopolize her playtime.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 221 min read
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Amok time: Elementary kids' behavior is out of control, say teachers
Student misbehavior is way up, say kindergarten and first-grade teachers. More kids are unprepared to pay attention, cooperate and show respect to classmates and teachers.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 213 min read
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What if every day was a (12-hour) school day?
A new South Bronx charter school will open its campus for 12 hours a day, seven days a week and 50 weeks a year for academics, enrichment and extracurriculars. It's all free.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 202 min read
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Are choice students learning more in private schools? We don't know
Unless public funding is linked to testing, there's now way to know if choice programs are improving student achievement.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 192 min read
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To end the education depression, choose school choice
Democrats should be willing to reimagine the K-12 system, giving funding to families instead of bureaucracies.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 192 min read
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Thinking with AI
AI -- with the right guardrails -- can help students think through ideas, a professor writes.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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Parents say: Bring back pencil and paper
The anti-tech backlash is here: Parents are asking to opt their kids out of using school laptops and tablets.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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Learning 'isn't always fun, and that's OK'
Learning may not always be fun, but kids need to know it's worth the effort.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 172 min read
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Great Books are hard, and that's good
Reading the classics is hard work. It teaches students to focus, think and persevere.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 161 min read
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From broke to woke to broken: How the humanities lost their way
Humanities professors embraced activism -- it's where the grant money is -- and lost students' interest.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 163 min read
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Is the autism epidemic a myth?
Is there an "epidemic" of severe autism -- or a surge in diagnoses for quirky kids?

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 152 min read
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Be not afraid: The world is safer than ever
Kids are safer outside exploring the world.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 142 min read
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Edtech is booming, but so is 'brain rot'
Edtech hasn't improved learning, so far, say critics. And it may encourage students to offload thinking to a bot.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 133 min read
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Harvard profs may OK limit on A's, and students aren't happy
Harvard's faculty is considering putting a 20 percent cap on A grades.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 121 min read
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