Joanne Jacobs
It's great if kids like math, but can they do math?
K-8 students will "manipulate shapes, animals and algebraic formulas to build foundational understanding of math" on a new math platform...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20231 min
Bishop's gambit: The chess coach is the school custodian, and the students are winners
Coached by the school custodian, students in Hampden, Maine have become chess champions, writes Sydney Page in the Washington Post. David...
Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20232 min
Roblox goes to school: Plan a Mars mission or join the Pathogen Patrol
Roblox is going to school, reports Benjamin Herold in Education Week. The popular gaming platform is adding immersive online “learning...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 22, 20232 min
'Diversity training' costs billions, but does it work?
There's no evidence diversity training works and some evidence it hurts, writes Jesse Singal in a New York Times commentary. The...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 2, 20182 min
New schools end up like old schools
High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20181 min
Not so smart no more
IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20181 min
Counselors are the first to be cut
Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 5, 20181 min
Tackling ‘culture’ — but not tools — of violence
The Trump administration’s school safety commission will examine the “culture of violence,” but not the role of guns, Education Secretary...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 21, 20182 min
VR is powerful — is it dangerous for kids?
Virtual reality technology, which creates an interactive, immersive experience, is “arguably the most powerful medium in history,” writes...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 19, 20182 min
Can we blame video games for violence?
Lonely and miserable, the Florida shooter played video games for as much as 15 hours a day, Paul Gold, a former neighbor, told the Miami...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 19, 20172 min
Schoolifying — or suckifying — Minecraft
Microsoft is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft without “suckifying” it, writes Anya Kamenetz in NPR. Minecraft, which lets players build a...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 1, 20171 min
Mississippi kids become winners at chess
Someone — nobody knows who — paid a chess coach to to teach the game to grade schoolers in rural Franklin County, Mississippi, reports 60...
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