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    'Sounds first' works in Tennessee
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 4 days ago
    • 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...
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    ‘Russian’ school gets a new name
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 7
    • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Learn, talk, think
    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...
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    Bilingual ed for black English?
    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,...
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    Immigrant parents aren’t keen on bilingual ed
    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...
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    Bilingual ed as white privilege
    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...
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    Refuge, friendship and hope
    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...
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    NY cuts English classes for immigrants
    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...
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    Why Learn Languages?
    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...
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    Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 25, 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...
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    Where poor kids are learning — Texas
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 27, 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...
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    Welcome to Refugee High
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 15, 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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    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 20, 2017
    • 1 min

    The pleasures of poetry

    High school students recited three poems they’d memorized for the Poetry Out Loud finals last month, reports Education Week. “This...
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    Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 9, 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...
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    Schools get refugees, but no resources
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    Schools get refugees, but no resources

    El Cajon, just east of San Diego, has been a resettling refugees for years, reports Mark Keierleber on The 74. But now the Cajon Valley...
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    If families fail, what can schools do?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 20, 2016
    • 2 min

    If families fail, what can schools do?

    Who’s your daddy? asks Ian Rowe, a Fordham fellow, who leads two charter schools in the South Bronx. That’s the message on two mobile DNA...
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