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No wonder kids don't like to read: YA books are vapid and ideological
Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20252 min read
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Poet X hasn't replaced Shakespeare -- yet -- in English classes
English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 1, 20253 min read
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Get your own soapbox
After a few DEI workshops, an elementary teacher decides to teach settler colonialism, climate change, slavery and gender norms in music class.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20252 min read
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You say you want a revolution: NEA votes to call Trump a 'fascist'
The National Education Association will fight for DEI and the U.S. Education Department, and vows to use "fascist" to describe President Trump.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20252 min read
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DEI dominoes wobble in California
Ethnic studies mandates based on racism, colonialism and Marxism are being rejected, even at the University of California and San Francisco schools.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20253 min read
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Colleges can admit 'diverse' students without racial preferences
Universities can enhance diversity by giving an admissions break to disadvantaged students of all races. It's legal and it's good politics.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 2, 20252 min read
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Dear Colleague: Do what the Ed Department wants -- or else
The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 4, 20253 min read
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Asian-American computer whiz sues UC for admissions bias
The University of California is being sued by Asian-American achievers who charge racial discrimination in admissions.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20251 min read
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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20252 min read
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The true meaning of Christmas
Christmas traditions are worth preserving.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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'Diverse' college graduates are less likely to become teachers
Black and brown college graduates are less likely to choose a teaching career and more likely to leave the classroom for other jobs,...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 13, 20242 min read
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College students are young adults - not fragile children
Stop babying college students and teach them that they're living in a diverse, pluralistic democracy.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Who's truly disadvantaged? Look at single parenting, not race or poverty
Growing up in a single-parent family is a huge disadvantage in life, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in Forbes. If racial preferences...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Disadvantaged? Really???
Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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Why did black enrollment fall at Wellesley, but not at Yale?
"Holistic" admissions to selective colleges is a "black box," writes Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Nobody knows...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 18, 20242 min read
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DEI at U of Michigan: 'rote incantations of a state religion'
University of Michigan's DEI program has created a "culture of grievance," not inclusion, say students and professors.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Want equity? Teach more math, not less
As a math teacher in the early 2000s, Adrian Mims saw few Black and Hispanic students succeeding in Brooklin (MA) High School's honors...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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MIT's new class is 47% Asian as black, Hispanic admissions fall
MIT ended racial preferences and admitted more Asians, slightly fewer whites and significantly fewer Hispanics and blacks.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20242 min read
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If minority parents choose a charter, that's not 'resegregation'
Parents should be able to choose a public school that meets their children's academic needs and their family's values, writes Debbie...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Yale wants science profs to 'promote DEI through teaching'
"Diversity" statements are out for job applicants at MIT: Would-professors won't have to pledge their loyalty to Diversity Equity and...

Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20242 min read
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