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When Coronavirus Cuts Your “Study Abroad” Program Short
Can you imagine getting to study abroad somewhere as exotic as Morocco, and then getting stuck there due to coronavirus? Danford, an...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20202 min read
U.S. spends more on schools, gets less
The U.S. spends more on education than our competitors, but gets less brains for the buck, writes Dominic Rushe in The Guardian. The US...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 25, 20181 min read


Excellent teachers or small classes?
What’s more important: excellent teachers or small class sizes? Singapore’s educational success is based on highly qualified,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20181 min read


Look lively: Big Brother is watching
A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22, 20182 min read


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 16, 20181 min read


Bootstrapping is harder in U.S.
Our competitors do a better job of enabling students to gain more education than their parents, she writes. Once, public education was...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20181 min read


The little laptop that couldn’t
In 2005, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) promised to deliver rugged $100 laptops to poor children around the world, linking them to the...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22, 20182 min read
How immigrants learn English in Canada
In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 16, 20182 min read


Swedish preschools teach boys to dance, girls to yell
Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 31, 20182 min read


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
Mar 1, 20181 min read


Equality widens STEM’s gender gap
In gender-equal Norway and Finland, 20 percent of college graduates in science, engineering and math are women, compared to 41 percent in...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20181 min read


Naked tykes by the fire pit
Sara Zaske moved to Germany with a four-year-old daughter, then gave birth to a son. In Achtung Baby she praises “the German art of...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 17, 20182 min read


Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged kids
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged students become achievers, writes Greg Ashman, who teaches in Australia. He cites an OECD working...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 5, 20181 min read


Don’t wait to get students on track
In the U.S., disadvantaged kids start school behind on vocabulary and cultural experiences, then fall farther behind as they go through...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 26, 20182 min read


Our kids are team players: Is that the ideal?
“Collaborative problem-solving” is a strength for U.S. teens, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA),...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20182 min read


French schools say ‘non’ to cell phones
French schools will ban cell phones reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph. In addition to a classroom ban, students will not be allowed...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 21, 20171 min read
Iceland’s clean teens
Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20171 min read
Kids can take it
You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20171 min read


Achievers don’t want to be teachers
High achievers don’t want to be teachers, reports Madeline Will for Education Week Teacher. “Around the world, students who want to go...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20172 min read


In Arab world, girls rule in school: Why?
Female students outnumber males two to one at the University of Jordan Across the Arab world, girls rule in school, writes Amanda Ripley...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20172 min read
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