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    'Covid grads' aren't ready for college
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 4 days ago
    • 2 min

    'Covid grads' aren't ready for college

    A top student at his Milwaukee high school, Angel Hope won college scholarships and chose the University of Wisconsin at Madison, writes...
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    Ask a quirky question ...
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 7
    • 2 min

    Ask a quirky question ...

    Test scores are optional or ignored, grades are inflated -- and essay questions are more important than ever for students applying to...
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    Hot jobs of the future: welder, plumber
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 16
    • 1 min

    Hot jobs of the future: welder, plumber

    Tennessee’s technical colleges focus on job skills, such as mechatronics. We’ve reached peak college, writes urbanist Joel Kotkin in...
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    It’s a hot summer job market for youth
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 9
    • 1 min

    It’s a hot summer job market for youth

    Working as a lifeguard was a dangerous job in “Stranger Things.” A red-hot summer job market awaits teenagers, reports Paul Wiseman and...
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    UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 6
    • 1 min

    UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate

    California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try...
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    ‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 6
    • 1 min

    ‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’

    Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
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    When does adulthood start?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 1
    • 2 min

    When does adulthood start?

    Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good: Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America. No buying...
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    Excellent lambs
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 28
    • 2 min

    Excellent lambs

    Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...
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    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22
    • 1 min

    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint

    Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals,...
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    ‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22
    • 2 min

    ‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’

    Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support...
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    ‘Financial lit’ vs. ‘don’t buy what you can’t afford’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 19
    • 2 min

    ‘Financial lit’ vs. ‘don’t buy what you can’t afford’

    Georgia is making “financial literacy” a graduation requirement, reports Carmen Reinecke on CNBC.  It’s the 13th state to mandate...
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    Class of ’22:  Fewer males aim for college
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 19
    • 2 min

    Class of ’22:  Fewer males aim for college

    After two pandemic years, the college-going gender gap is widening, reports YouthTruth’s Class of 2022 survey. Compared to the class of...
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    Grad rates rose as standards fell
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 17
    • 1 min

    Grad rates rose as standards fell

    Although students “learned considerably less” during the pandemic, high school graduation rates rose in 2020 and returned to the previous...
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    ACT: Pandemic fueled grade inflation
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 17
    • 2 min

    ACT: Pandemic fueled grade inflation

    High school grade inflation accelerated during the pandemic, according to ACT. “The findings echo a recent federal study that also showed...
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    Zoom U was very bad for students
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 16
    • 2 min

    Zoom U was very bad for students

    College students are not OK, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches first-year writing at Southern Methodist University, in a New York...
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    The young Puritans
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    The young Puritans

    Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...
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    Causing discomfort remains legal
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    Causing discomfort remains legal

    Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
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    Trying is not the same as achieving
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 20
    • 2 min

    Trying is not the same as achieving

    Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    When Coronavirus Cuts Your “Study Abroad” Program Short

    Can you imagine getting to study abroad somewhere as exotic as Morocco, and then getting stuck there due to coronavirus? Danford, an...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    Postsecondary Math Education

    Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh.  It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...
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