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Despite the Holocaust, 'competitive victimhood' is a loser for Jews
Anti-antisemitism rules for schools won't work, and more Holocaust education isn't the answer.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 143 min read


School safety is top reason parents use choice to leave public schools
Bullying is the primary reason parents use choice programs to flee public schools.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 182 min read


UK schools will show 'Adolescence' to warn teens about toxic 'manosphere'
British schools may show Netflix's "Adolescence" to warn students about online misogyny and "incel culture."

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 42 min read


Transgender teens are unhappy -- or unhappy teens blame their gender
More than 3 percent of high school students identify as transgender, more than double the number a few years ago.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 12, 20241 min read


Bullying, violence are up: 1 in 10 teens are afraid to go to school, says CDC
Teens aren't quite as sad or suicidal as they were in 2021, reports the CDC, but violence, bullying and school avoidance are up.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 12, 20242 min read


Post-Covid kids are unfocused, poorly behaved and -- surprise! -- learning less
Student behavior hasn't recovered from the pandemic, says a federal survey of public schools.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20241 min read


Berkeley middle-schoolers march on Jewish preschool
My granddaughter will start day care in a few months at a Jewish community center. It was my daughter's first choice, but she also...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20242 min read


To stop bullying, bring back consequences -- and to hell with 'root causes'
AI-powered “nudification” apps are letting teenage boys turn real photos of their clothed classmates into "deepfake" porn to be shared...

Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20242 min read


Ban TikTok, say principals: 'Social media is merciless'
In an Education Week survey, 55 percent of principals said banning TikTok would "make their jobs easier," reports Olina Banerji. TikTok...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20242 min read


Portland will consider race, gender to 'support' disruptive students
Portland (OR) schools will design "support plans" for disruptive students that consider trauma, race, gender identity/presentation and...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20232 min read


Homeschoolers are more diverse, less conservative
Many families that tried homeschooling during the pandemic are still at it. As a result, post-pandemic homeschoolers are "more racially...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 27, 20232 min read


CA schools chief ejected from board meeting on parents' rights
Parents should be told if their child is involved in violence at school, expresses suicidal thoughts or identifies as transgender, a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20232 min read


Why parents choose virtual schools
Virtual schooling has a bad reputation, writes Ian Kingsbury, a senior fellow at the Educational Freedom Institute, in City Journal....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20232 min read


School of bullies
Sometimes students misbehave -- not because their needs haven't been met or their teachers aren't sufficiently sensitive to their culture...

Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20232 min read


Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 4, 20223 min read


Instagram bullying: ‘Portal of pain’ for teens
Fifty-nine percent of teens say they’ve been bullied online, reports Pew. In a 2017 survey by Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying group,...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 14, 20181 min read


Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20183 min read


Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20182 min read


Safety fears encourage homeschooling
School safety fears are pushing parents to consider homeschooling, writes Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times. After a gunman...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20182 min read
An Evergreen Headline
Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year? Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...

Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20182 min read
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