Joanne Jacobs
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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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
Consequences
What is left out of a news story can be just as important as what is in the news story. Case in point: On February 28, 54 graduate...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10, 2020
- 1 min
Didn’t Someone Once Write A Book…
…about getting Hispanic students into college, and supporting them while they’re there? USA Today reports: Pushed by their parents and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 5, 2020
- 1 min
Your Feel-good Story of the Day
It’s always refreshing to hear a story about kindness and appreciation: An Uber driver says she is one step closer to achieving her dream...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
How Campuses Should Handle Sexual Assaults
Answer: they shouldn’t. Sexual assault is a law enforcement issue. And the now-discarded Obama-era “guidelines” for handling such...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 2, 2019
- 1 min
Women Get The Majority of Degrees in the US
The animated chart is pretty cool: My latest animated “bar chart race” visualization appears above and shows the female share of colleges...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 30, 2019
- 1 min
What About The 1st Amendment?
Remember that “free speech movement” that started in Berkeley? It didn’t stick: Middlebury College’s Student Government Association has...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 28, 2019
- 1 min
A Defeat For Anti-Semitism
Israeli boycott proposals continue to be made in American universities, and so far at least, they continue to be shot down: University of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 27, 2019
- 1 min
It’s Not Just The President
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order last month to protect free speech or lose funding, some in higher education join the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 26, 2019
- 1 min
Wiping Out College Loan Debt
How much are the poor helped by proposals to cancel college loan debt? Eliminating all student debt has become a fashionable idea on the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 16, 2018
- 2 min
Harvard denies anti-Asian bias
Harvard’s admissions process is on trial, charged with bias against Asian-American students, reports Anemona Hartocollis in the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
Americans lose confidence in higher ed
Americans — especially Republicans — are losing confidence in higher education, reports Gallup. Three years ago, 57 percent of U.S....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 6, 2018
- 1 min
‘Unlikely’ to graduate
Unlikely, a new documentary about the college dropout crisis, spotlights five students in Akron, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles who are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
Reclaiming degrees — but what are they worth?
Millions of students drop out or “stop out” of college with some credits, but no degree. Degrees When Due, created by the Institute for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
College is free — but how many earn degrees?
Free college is politically popular, but may not improve graduation rates, conclude Brookings researchers on Chalkboard. It depends on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 27, 2018
- 1 min
Who’s #1 in graduating low-income students?
College rankings should reward schools that help disadvantaged students graduate and boost their social mobility, writes Bridget Burns,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 26, 2018
- 1 min
Newark: To college, but not through college
Newark students are more likely to go to college, but only 23 percent complete a degree or certificate in six years, concludes a new...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 21, 2018
- 2 min
Why college writing fails
Political indoctrination is destroying the value of college writing courses, argues Stephen Combs, who teaches composition at Florida’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19, 2018
- 2 min
College without remediation
If remedial classes don’t help college students succeed — and there’s lots of evidence for that — what’s the alternative? California...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18, 2018
- 2 min
Why high schools can’t raise standards
Forty to 50 percent of high school graduates aren’t prepared to pass a community college class, writes Marc Tucker, president of the...
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