Joanne Jacobs
A black professor leaves academia: 'Critical thinking became critical feeling'
Erec Smith, formerly a professor of rhetoric and composition, got tired of colleagues calling him "inauthentically Black" because he...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 242 min read
College students are young adults - not fragile children
Stop babying college students and teach them that they're living in a diverse, pluralistic democracy.
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 122 min read
Trump will make education great again -- and also leave it to the states
President Trump's education agenda calls for more federal say and more local control.
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 31 min read
Teens say: America, meh
Young Americans are less patriotic than older generations.
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12 min read
Democrats take over school board, but books stay 'banned'
When a Pennsylvania school board flipped from Republican to Democratic control, some policies changed -- but many did not.
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 313 min read
Politics in the classroom: Can teachers teach the election without bias?
Should teachers teach about the election?
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 72 min read
Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 241 min read
To form a more perfect union, teach students to respect the Constitution
At Vertex Partnership Academies , a charter high school in the Bronx, students recite the Preamble to the Constitution every day, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 243 min read
Is free speech just for nice speech? Students (and adults) need to know civics
Tim Walz, a former social studies teacher who hopes to be vice president, said, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 171 min read
Teens can vote for school board in Oakland, Berkeley -- but will they?
Teenagers 16 and 17 year old will be able to vote for school board in Oakland and Berkeley.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 143 min read
Teaching the election: It's not a crusade
Social studies teachers are eager to discuss the election -- students might actually care! -- but also very nervous about...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 22 min read
Silicon Valley parents push back on ethnic studies
Parents want to know what will be taught in soon-to-be-mandatory ethnic studies class.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 42 min read
Proud to be Americans
When Bruno Manno was growing up in the '50s and '50s, his family would gather at his grandparents' Italian tavern, to eat, drink and...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11 min read
Young voters say: Politicians are corrupt, America is in decline
Young voters say politicians are corrupt and America is in decline in new poll.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 14, 20231 min read
Afraid to teach: 'It's safer to avoid current events'
Polarization is chilling classroom dialogue, according to a series of interviews with teachers by the Constructive Dialogue Institute...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Beyond basics: Schools must teach 'virtues and habits' of free people
"Back to basics" education isn't enough, writes Gillian Richards on The American Conservative. "Some conservatives have responded to...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 23, 20231 min read
Test reading and civics at the same time
Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 6, 20232 min read
Texas limits 'action civics'
Civic activism can't be required in Texas public schools if it requires communicating with federal, state or local officials, reports...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20231 min read
History, civics and reading comprehension go together
The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...
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