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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Four years after 'two weeks to flatten the curve' ...
Four years ago, schools across the country closed their doors. It was supposed to be for two weeks or three or . . . Most schools stayed...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20231 min read
Science says: Masking didn't help stop Covid spread
The value of masking during the pandemic was "approximately zero," according to a Cochrane review of high-quality research, reports John...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 15, 20231 min read
Unvaccinated NYC teachers reported to FBI: Is this true?
New York City teachers were reported to the FBI for refusing to be vaccinated, charges a lawyer for teachers who were fired due to the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 11, 20232 min read
Quarantines were a disastrous disruption for students
"Remote learning was terrible for many students," writes John Bailey, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, on The 74....
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20221 min read
Scared of school: 45% favor arming teachers
I try to imagine Miss Lawson, my kindergarten teacher, packing heat. Mrs. Roston? Miss Bletsch? Of course, in my day, schools didn't have...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20221 min read
Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....
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Joanne Jacobs
May 16, 20222 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
May 15, 20221 min read
Remote ed was double-whammy for poor students
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20222 min read
 Remote learning was a disaster
Photo: Marta Wave/Pexels Remote learning was an academic disaster, writes David Leonhardt. And it may have been unnecessary. In March...
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