Joanne Jacobs
Elite colleges cater to privileged know-it-alls
Elite colleges admit young elitists,writes Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum in the New York Post....
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 13, 2017
- 1 min
Course choice opens high school options
“Course choice,” also known as course access, is expanding options for students whose high schools can’t meet all their learning needs,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 13, 2017
- 2 min
Doing dual-credit right
Schools are cheating their students by offering “dual-credit lite,” charges Kevin Teasley, founder of the Greater Educational...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 12, 2017
- 1 min
To finish college, take more credits
Among the 6 reasons you may not graduate on time: You’re not taking enough credits, writes Meredith Kolodner in the New York Times. “Most...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 6, 2017
- 2 min
College divide: Ideas or ‘justice’?
The divide on elite college campuses separates defenders of “the free exchange of ideas” from those who see “inclusivity and social...
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 4, 2017
- 1 min
Laptops in lecture class: Grades go down
Using a laptop to take notes in a college lecture classes is linked to lower grades — especially for weaker students — in two new...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 2, 2017
- 3 min
A guided path to a degree
Young people go to college to search for him/her/xe-self, explore, experiment, discover a passion . . . Or perhaps to retake algebra,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
Profs swear diversity oaths
The “loyalty oaths” of the ’50s have returned to academia, writes George Leef. Now professors and would-be professors must pledge...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
Kipnis: Feminism shouldn’t be fragile
A week after a Middlebury crowd disrupted Charles Murray’s speech, and sent a professor to the hospital with a concussion, feminist...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 27, 2017
- 1 min
Too poor for college
Millions of Americans start college, but never finish a degree. Why not? Poor preparation and too many competing responsibilities,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2017
- 2 min
Remaking remediation
Eighty percent of new community college students in the City University of New York system test into remedial reading, writing and/or...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2017
- 1 min
College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
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
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
Prof: My college students are helpless
“I had to explain to her, carefully, and with what I hope was compassion, that if she hadn’t picked up his name in the class discussions...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 16, 2017
- 2 min
Charters get grads to college, but few graduate
Urban charter schools are getting their low-income, minority students to college, but few go on to earn college degrees, reports Greg...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 28, 2017
- 1 min
Trump: Black colleges are a priority
President Trump met with black college leaders yesterday. Today, he signed an executive order pledging support and moving the Initiative...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
FIRE names 10 worst college for free speech
The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech include Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Oregon and University of South Carolina, according...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2017
- 1 min
College writing center: Grammar is racist
Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2017
- 1 min
Beware the bias police
Universities are creating “Bias Response Teams” to investigate offensive speech, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in...
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