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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20171 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20171 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 5, 20172 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20172 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20171 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20171 min read
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 19, 20171 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20172 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20171 min read
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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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20162 min read
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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