Joanne Jacobs
De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 12, 2018
- 1 min
Parents, stop coddling your kids
Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 1, 2018
- 1 min
Students — but not teachers — are safer
Students feel safer in school, according to a Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2017, an annual federal report that analyzed 2015-16...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2018
- 2 min
Safety last?
When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2018
- 2 min
After jail, back to school
Broward County’s school system has built a prison-to-school pipeline, writes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations. “Thousands of other...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
He sat in class — and got suspended
While other students walked out of school to protest gun violence, Jacob Shoemaker sat in class alone. The Hilliard Davidson High senior...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 7, 2018
- 2 min
Discipline reform: Did it go too far?
Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 6, 2018
- 2 min
Hugs and guns to keep kids safe
Pamela Revels “dispenses hugs and smiles” at schools around Auburn, Alabama, reports the New York Times in a story about school resource...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 25, 2018
- 2 min
‘It was never enough to get him arrested’
Parkland, Florida students and teachers are returning to Stoneman Douglas High this week, though not to the freshman building where a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
Principal pays kids not to fight
At a high-poverty, low-performing K-8 school in Philadelphia, eighth graders don’t get into fights any more. Their principal promised...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 5, 2018
- 1 min
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged kids
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged students become achievers, writes Greg Ashman, who teaches in Australia. He cites an OECD working...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 21, 2018
- 2 min
Reforming school discipline: Too fast?
Is school discipline reform moving too fast? asks Wayne D’Orio in The Atlantic. In the Highline district south of Seattle, suspensions...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 28, 2017
- 2 min
Soft discipline is bigotry of low expectations
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears to be gearing up to rescind Obama-era discipline policies. A 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter warned...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
Feds could narrow civil rights investigations
The U.S. Education Department is considering a proposal to narrow civil rights investigations to focus on individual complaints rather...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 13, 2017
- 2 min
Why I’m not involved in my kid’s school
Jung-ah Choi, a “college faculty member, teaching and writing about social justice, race, and education,” isn’t involved in her son’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 30, 2017
- 2 min
Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 14, 2017
- 2 min
Revoke federal letter on suspensions, race
School safety is more important than racial balance in suspensions, argues Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal. Education Secretary...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2017
- 1 min
Is your 5-year-old an anarchist?
In Pasco County, Florida, parents don’t like “new behavior expectation charts that suggest conforming to peer pressure is positive, and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 28, 2017
- 1 min
District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally
The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school. Agree with...
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