Joanne Jacobs
Child's play is learning
Playing -- especially child-directed play outside with friends -- is how kids learn, writes Jackie Mader on the Hechinger Report. Playing...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 20
- 2 min
'Anti-adoption drumbeat' leaves kids in foster care
Naomi Schaefer Riley hears an "anti-adoption drumbeat" from the media. "In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Left wants to make sure...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 18
- 2 min
Kids stream more, read less
The rise in screen time -- not just school closures -- is a factor in the decline in achievement, suggests Tim Daly, who runs the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 16
- 1 min
No tattoos for kids -- sex-change drugs are OK
A New York woman was arrested for letting her 10-year-old son get a tattoo, reports the New York Times. State law bans tattoos for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 27
- 2 min
You're not so special
"No one is you, and that is your superpower!" reads a sign at Brian Huskie's school. "Ridiculous," he writes on SubStack. "Imagine being...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 17
- 2 min
Can online privacy laws make the net safe for kids?
A new California law will try to protect children online by requiring safeguards for users under 18, reports Natasha Singer in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Raising an American girl
My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 1 min
‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13
- 1 min
If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’
A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 13
- 1 min
She watched kids play — security was called
Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 30, 2018
- 1 min
Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 5, 2018
- 2 min
Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 10, 2018
- 1 min
What it’s like in ‘Eighth Grade’
I have no desire to remember my eighth-grade self. If the new movie Eighth Grade captures what it’s like to be an insecure 13-year-old, I...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 5, 2018
- 2 min
‘Work colleges’ go urban
The “work college” model — students are required to work as part of their education — is spreading to cities, reports Hechinger’s Delece...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 30, 2018
- 1 min
Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?
Teachers’ unions should adopt a kid-centric policy in response to the Janus decision, writes Paul Reville in Ed Week. Leaders will need...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 27, 2018
- 1 min
If life loans you a lemon, sell lemonade
Lemonade stands are teaching kids how to be entrepreneurs, reports Sarah D. Sparks for Ed Week. Jemma Walker, 11, set up a mermaid-themed...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
‘Tastes like justice’
Brilliant marketing. #entrepreneurship #lemonadestands
Joanne Jacobs
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
‘Baby, may I change your diaper?’
Deanne Carson An Aussie sex education expert says parents should ask for permission to change a child’s diaper, reports Kashmira Gander...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 8, 2018
- 1 min
Trophies are for winners
Trophies are for winners, a Maryland youth baseball league has decided. “For years, Reisterstown Baseball has given trophies to its...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 4, 2018
- 1 min
Curiosity kills the (achievement) gap
A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...