Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 21
- 2 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
- 2 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, 2018
- 2 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, 2018
- 1 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, 2018
- 1 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, 2018
- 1 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, 2018
- 2 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, 2018
- 2 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, 2017
- 2 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, 2017
- 1 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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