Joanne Jacobs
Career-tech becomes college prep, mostly white
Rigorous career-tech programs such as New Jersey’s Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST) prepare students for top colleges and...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 18, 2017
- 2 min
Teacher: Workforce prep isn’t my job
When Ohio Gov. John Kasich proposed requiring teachers to serve an “externship” at a business to renew their teacher’s licenses, there...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2017
- 1 min
What happens to anthro majors?
College graduates earn about $600,000 more over their lifetimes than workers with only a high school education, reports the Hamilton...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2017
- 2 min
Who needs a degree?
The future of college may not include going to class or earning a degree, writes AP’s Maria Danilova. “Education startups are offering...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 6, 2017
- 1 min
Chicago mayor: No diploma without a plan
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to add a new graduation requirement for public school students, reports the Chicago Tribune. By 2020,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 1, 2017
- 2 min
Israel’s education secret: It’s not the schools
Israel is a global leader in technology, despite its small size, writes Naftali Bennett, a former high-tech CEO and now Minister of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2017
- 1 min
Training to manage the machines
Manufacturers are working with Michigan community colleges to redesign career technical education, reports Emily DeRuy in The Atlantic....
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
More math, more money
“When states raise the number of math classes they require students to take in high school,” black students take more math and go on to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Majors matter
“Deciding your major plays a bigger role in determining your career earnings than does where you go to school or even deciding whether or...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 5, 2017
- 2 min
Who will work? Education, automation and jobs
Robots — artificial intelligence technology — will take up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs in the next few decades, predicts a White House...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 24, 2017
- 1 min
Moving on up
From the Equality of Opportunity Project. With less ambitious criteria — colleges where most bottom-fifth students reached the upper...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min
College ‘degree premium’ goes flat
Is a college degree the new high school diploma? asks Jeffrey Selingo in the Washington Post. The “degree premium” — the earnings gap...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 18, 2017
- 2 min
Tell the truth about college readiness
“Sam” earned mostly B’s at Average High. Is he/she/they prepared to pass college classes? Maybe, if the B’s were for achievement rather...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 1, 2017
- 1 min
Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 23, 2016
- 1 min
Go to high school, learn a trade
Lance Cohen uses a cutting wheel to shorten a piece of ductwork as Dulaney High classmates (left to right) Zach Iacoboni and Xavier...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 22, 2016
- 2 min
Meritocracy’s losers: No degree, no respect
Educational elitism marks the modern U.S. economy, writes Victor Tan Chen in The Atlantic. College-educated winners scorn working-class...
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