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The new math has more on 'social justice,' less math
Money earned by people who were very, very good at math is being spent to promote anti-racist, justice-infused not-very-mathy math.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 26, 20252 min read


Billionaires, here’s how to fund education
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 6, 20172 min read


Personalized-learning model goes national
Milpitas Unified, a school district near San Jose, is using the Summit Learning Plan in several schools. At Pomeroy Elementary, 6th-grade...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20172 min read


Jews play Santa for families in need
At St. Joseph’s Family Center in Gilroy, California, the annual Christmas meal for the needy “kicked off with a Jewish blessing and...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20161 min read
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