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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 9, 20182 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20171 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 5, 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20172 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 27, 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 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...

Joanne Jacobs
May 20, 20171 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...

Joanne Jacobs
May 9, 20172 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 22, 20171 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 20, 20162 min read
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