Joanne JacobsOct 15, 20171 minBiloxi pulls ‘Mockingbird’ for use of ‘n-word’Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...
Joanne JacobsOct 13, 20172 minTeachers, beware the ed-tech trapEducation technology can be a waste of teachers’ and students’ time, argue two teachers in a new book, Screen Schooled. Joe Clement and...
Joanne JacobsOct 8, 20171 minA discombobulated radicalJohn Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform, offers a rosy and unachievable vision for public school change, writes Checker Finn. Merrow...
Joanne JacobsOct 7, 20171 minSeuss museum will remove ‘racist’ muralreplace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...