Joanne Jacobs
Happy Thanksgiving
Have a happy Thanksgiving. (Don’t discuss politics. Just eat and “be grateful for the people you are eating it with.”) #Thanksgiving
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Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
Schools vs. poverty: Poverty usually wins
Education doesn’t guarantee social mobility, writes Rachel M. Cohen in The Atlantic. “In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 21, 2017
- 1 min
Educating the poor: What works best?
Students at KIPP South Fulton Academy in Atlanta. “No excuses” charters are more effective ways to improve prospects for disadvantaged...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
Why can’t Johnny read? It’s a parenting gap
Focusing on the racial achievement gap obscures the underlying problem, argues Ian Rowe, a visiting fellow at Fordham. The family...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 5, 2017
- 2 min
Decoding the world, through Disney movies
Life, Animated didn’t win the Oscar for best documentary (blame O.J. Simpson), but the movie about Disney and autism is well worth...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 20, 2016
- 2 min
If families fail, what can schools do?
Who’s your daddy? asks Ian Rowe, a Fordham fellow, who leads two charter schools in the South Bronx. That’s the message on two mobile DNA...
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