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    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 11
    • 2 min

    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’

    Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s...
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    What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?

    Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on when children are ready for painful topics, writes Marta W....
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    School librarians: Dump ‘Mockingbird,’ ‘Gatsby’ …
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 25
    • 2 min

    School librarians: Dump ‘Mockingbird,’ ‘Gatsby’ …

    — Summer Reading Survey School librarians want to drop To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn from summer reading...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    A More Inclusive Literature Curriculum?

    Canon, that which transfers our cultural heritage to the next generation, is out.  Giving everyone’s feelings a voice is in: Most English...
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    Lawnmower parents raise anxious kids
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Lawnmower parents raise anxious kids

    A middle-school teacher is called to the office so Dad can hand over his child’s water bottle. The girl doesn’t like drinking from the...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    GenZ prefer YouTube videos to books

    Generation Z — aka post-Millenials –prefers learning from YouTube and videos rather than printed books, reports Lauraine Genota in Ed...
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    Who’s been deleting Papa Bear?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 29, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who’s been deleting Papa Bear?

    The Three Bears story without Papa Bear. Instead Mama Bear is a single parent raising two bears, both of which appear to be female. Or...
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    Think (and draw) like a mathematician
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Think (and draw) like a mathematician

    book titled Math with Bad Drawings after his blog. “Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of...
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    Would UCLA hire Einstein?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Would UCLA hire Einstein?

    Would UCLA hire Albert Einstein as a professor?  asks Heather Mac Donald in the Los Angeles Times. Starting this fall, all faculty...
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    ‘College for all’ works — for 16% of students
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 11, 2018
    • 2 min

    ‘College for all’ works — for 16% of students

    Our education system fails most students, argues Oren Cass, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of How the Other Half Learns. ...
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    New teen fiction genre: School shootings
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    New teen fiction genre: School shootings

    Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...
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    Title IX twisted: From soccer to sex harassment
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Title IX twisted: From soccer to sex harassment

    Once a “reasonable equality-of-opportunity law,” Title IX has gone weirdly astray, writes Christina Hoff Sommers. “What explains the...
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    Going AYP
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Going AYP

    Roxanna Elden’s Adequate Yearly Progress is an entertaining — and often infuriating — novel about a Texas high school coping with a...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 29, 2018
    • 1 min

    Build a book: Crafting ‘Treasure Island’

    Microsoft, is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft, the wildly popular world-building game. The latest idea, Litcraft, lets kids build models...
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    Gates: Facts are your friends
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 7, 2018
    • 2 min

    Gates: Facts are your friends

    Bill Gates is offering all 2018 college graduates a free download of his favorite book, Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re...
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    It’s all hate speech now
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    It’s all hate speech now

    The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog....
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    Summer reading
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Summer reading

    My husband’s grandson is turning 3. Mom and Dad requested a gift of Newtonian Physics for Babies. Here are some other ideas:...
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    Raising self-regulating kids
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    Raising self-regulating kids

    Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...
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    Parenting: Are you a carpenter or a gardener?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Parenting: Are you a carpenter or a gardener?

    Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at Berkeley, wants parents to let their children grow freely without too much worry about...
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    McEwan gets C+ on his own book
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    McEwan gets C+ on his own book

    When novelist Ian McEwan’s son had to write a school essay on one of his father’s books, Enduring Love, McEwan “gave him a tutorial” on...
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