Joanne Jacobs
'Hungry Caterpillar' is banned as school purges pre-2008 books
Books published before 2008 have been removed from school library shelves in a school district near Toronto, Canada, reports Nicole...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 12
- 2 min
'Equitable grading' is racism with a smile
Students don't have to turn in assignments on time -- or at all. The minimum grade for work is 50 percent, even if the student did...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 10
- 3 min
Is misogyny real? The present is female
Misogyny is a myth, argues John Tierney in City Journal. It's not just that "the future is female." The present is too. In the past,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28
- 2 min
Cover-up in California: State botched remote learning, tried to silence critics
After Oakland schools closed in March, 2020, eight-year-old Cayla J. had two remote classes. Then, according to her mother, the teacher...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 17
- 2 min
Detracking in Shaker Heights: 'Honors' for all, lower expectations
All Shaker Heights students take honors classes -- or classes with an "honors" label. The "enriched" and "advanced" tracks are gone,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Focus on who gets out of poverty, not who gets into Harvard
Obsessing over who gets into elite colleges and universities is an odd preoccupation for progressives, argues Francisco Toro on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Very rich lacrosse-playing 'legacies' have an Ivy edge
The very rich are different: They can get their kids into ultra-selective universities. Upper-middle-class won't do it. And it helps -- a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21
- 2 min
You want equity? Teach more -- not less
The foolish idea that teaching kids less math will advance "equity" has spread from California, which has adopted watered-down guidelines...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10
- 2 min
Universities talk 'diversity,' demand conformity
Requiring would-be professors to swear allegiance to a political ideology is a free-speech violation, charges a lawsuit filed in May....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6
- 1 min
Prep disadvantaged kids for Ivy futures
Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 3 min
Biden opposes 'privilege,' except when his granddaughter applied to Penn
Harvard's admissions break for children of alumni and donors "discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost" to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Educate the 99%, who got no help from affirmative action
"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Poor blacks get nothing from affirmative action
Affirmative action in college admissions has failed to help disadvantaged black students, writes Bertrand Cooper in The Atlantic. If the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 22
- 1 min
A 'lost generation' of learning: Scores fall, gaps widen for 13-year-olds
America's 13-year-olds are moving backwards educationally, according to a new report on long term trends by the National Assessment of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Race-based affirmative action isn't popular
Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15
- 2 min
If colleges can't use race for admissions, what happens?
The U.S. Supreme Court to end racial preferences in college admissions, very soon, just about everyone predicts. So what happens next?...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Finland's secret: Teachers teach
Finland has become a mecca for miracle-seeking educators, writes Sam Chaltain on Letters from the Future (of Learning). Teaching is an...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 25
- 2 min
Dual enrollment soars, but is it really college?
Sarah Olufemi-Dada is graduating from her Texas high school with a diploma, an associate science and a full scholarship to Stanford,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22
- 2 min
SATs are out. Published 'research' is in, but it's pay to play
Test scores are out. Everyone's got an A average. The "community service" trip to Mexico and the start-your-own-charity gambit are...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 17
- 1 min
Presto chango! You're 'graduation ready'
New Jersey just doubled the percentage of students who are "graduation ready" in reading, writes Chrif Cerf, the former state...
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