Joanne Jacobs
No hablo ingles? No es un problema at California community colleges
Immigrants can find classes in Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Armenian, Korean and other languages at some California community colleges. ...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9
- 3 min
Talking 'bout 'oracy'
Teaching students to speak well would "break the class ceiling," said Sir Keir Starmer, the British Labour leader and would-be prime...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Science says: Masking didn't help stop Covid spread
The value of masking during the pandemic was "approximately zero," according to a Cochrane review of high-quality research, reports John...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
Mastering newspeak at Stanford
Will Stanford continue to award master's degrees? Will my daughter's major -- American Studies -- need a new name? Stanford's IT...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
Raising not-so-American kids
College-educated parents want their children taught in Japanese, Mandarin, French and Spanish, writes Abigail Shrier on Substack. They...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
Louisiana eyes requiring summer school for struggling readers
Louisiana students not reading at grade level in K-4 would be required to attend summer school -- or repeat a grade -- under a proposal...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
'Sounds first' works in Tennessee
The Knowledge Matters Campaign's new web site highlights teachers and schools that use "knowledge-building curricula" to develop...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min
‘Russian’ school gets a new name
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9. Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6, 2018
- 3 min
Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 16, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Mar 21, 2018
- 1 min
Learn, talk, think
Three girls are using prior knowledge, texts and images to rank five Civil War heroes in order of heroism. Then they’ll write essays...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 14, 2018
- 2 min
Bilingual ed for black English?
Remember Ebonics? Worried about black students’ reading skills, Oakland’s school board declared black English to be a separate,...
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
- 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
- Aug 5, 2017
- 2 min
Why Learn Languages?
Yes, but what does this take? A language towers over the best of minds. A few years of high school study won’t get you far, unless the...
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...
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