Joanne JacobsAug 302 minLow-SES Asians are top students: Can 'excellence gap' be closed?A middle school in a working-class, mostly Hispanic neighborhood in San Jose started teaching algebra after a wave of Vietnamese refugee...
Joanne JacobsAug 172 minDetracking in Shaker Heights: 'Honors' for all, lower expectationsAll Shaker Heights students take honors classes -- or classes with an "honors" label. The "enriched" and "advanced" tracks are gone,...
Joanne JacobsJul 212 minYou want equity? Teach more -- not lessThe foolish idea that teaching kids less math will advance "equity" has spread from California, which has adopted watered-down guidelines...
Joanne JacobsMar 91 minElite Philly school is being 'dismantled' by lottery admissions, say parentsAn influx of unprepared students, admitted by a new lottery system, is destroying Philadelphia's top-ranked school, charges a report by...
Joanne JacobsFeb 231 minMediocrity for all isn't equity In Culver City (CA), ninth- and tenth-grade honors classes were eliminated, reports Sara Randazzo in the Wall Street Journal. Officials...