Joanne Jacobs
How immigrants learn English in Canada
In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 5, 2018
- 2 min
Study links DACA to more schooling, fewer births
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which linked eligibility to schooling, led to a 15 percent increase in high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min
Online degree expands college access
Georgia Tech’s online master’s in computer science program enabled mid-career workers to earn a degree that would have been out of reach...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 1, 2018
- 1 min
Immigrant students catch up quickly in Canada
Teacher Ann Woomert works with Aisha, 12, from Somalia, in class for English Learners at an Ontario school. Photo: Ian Willms/Boreal...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2018
- 1 min
Don’t blame tech for teen suicides
Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 31, 2018
- 2 min
Immigrant parents aren’t keen on bilingual ed
Mural by students at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified is tripling the number of dual-immersion bilingual...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9, 2018
- 2 min
Bilingual ed as white privilege
Middle-class, native English-speaking, white parents are flooding into dual-immersion bilingual programs, writes Conor Williams in The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 1, 2018
- 2 min
The new college try
The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 8, 2017
- 1 min
Refuge, friendship and hope
In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
NY cuts English classes for immigrants
Beginning English Language Learners (ELLs) need direct instruction in English writes Arthur Goldstein, an English as a Second Language...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 15, 2017
- 1 min
Latinos go to college — but few earn 4-year degrees
Latinos’ high school graduation rates have soared and they’re far more likely to enroll in two- and four-year colleges. However Latino...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 31, 2017
- 1 min
Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 24, 2017
- 2 min
Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 26, 2017
- 1 min
Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2017
- 1 min
Welcome to Refugee High
Chicago’s Sullivan High has raised its enrollment and test scores by welcoming immigrants and refugees, reports Elly Fishman for Chicago...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 21, 2017
- 2 min
‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 8, 2017
- 2 min
Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
“Segregating” refugees may help them integrate, suggests the Hechinger Report’s Meredith Kolodner. Bowling Green, Kentucky has opened a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 28, 2017
- 1 min
Why Indo-American kids bee good
In Bee-Brained, in Harper’s Magazine, Vauhini Vara, a former spelling champ, visits the all-Indian-American North South competition,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 10, 2017
- 2 min
For a more perfect union
Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2017
- 1 min
College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
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