Joanne Jacobs
Administrators return to teaching to fill shortages
Teacher shortages are worse than ever this year, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post. "Pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 27
- 2 min
Merit is not a myth
If I wanted to prevent disadvantaged or "marginalized" students from doing well in school, succeeding in college, learning a career or...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22
- 3 min
'R' is for reading -- and race
K-2 teachers won't be switching to a new research-backed, phonics-based literacy curriculum this fall, reports Dana Goldstein in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Data science vs. calculus
California's proposed math guidelines claim to promote equity by offering a data-science alternative to the traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24
- 1 min
Don’t know much about teaching math
Are elementary teachers well prepared to teach math? Many elementary teachers aren’t confident about their math skills, and transmit...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24
- 2 min
Multiple math paths to where?
California’s proposed new math framework offers a “choose-your-own-adventure approach” that is “fundamentally flawed,” argue Jennifer...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24
- 2 min
Magical thinking on teaching math
We know a lot about how to teach students who have trouble learning math, writes researcher Tom Loveless. Why not use that? Photo:...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19
- 2 min
‘Financial lit’ vs. ‘don’t buy what you can’t afford’
Georgia is making “financial literacy” a graduation requirement, reports Carmen Reinecke on CNBC. It’s the 13th state to mandate...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 4
- 2 min
Aviation students solve problems — before the crash
Students are learning math, engineering and problem solving through a curriculum designed by the nonprofit Aircraft Owners and Pilots...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 20, 2020
- 2 min
Paper and Pencil
K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes. Too many students are allowed...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min
Postsecondary Math Education
Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh. It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
“Restructuring” Public Education
This author invites a total restructuring of K-14 education: Any restructuring effort must start with getting the funding right, which...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
Lack of Algebra Skills
Joanne’s off to Africa and handed me the reins, and my first post will be a link to a rant about declining algebra skills in my school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 30, 2019
- 2 min
Education Reform
Forbes has an excellent “decade retrospective” on education reform and suggests where we might look for results in the next decade: Now...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 20, 2018
- 2 min
Social justicing mathematx
Joy Pullman rants well. In The Federalist, she takes on social justice math. University of Illinois Professor Rochelle Gutierrez, who...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 16, 2018
- 1 min
Think (and draw) like a mathematician
book titled Math with Bad Drawings after his blog. “Orlin shows us how to think like a mathematician by teaching us a brand-new game of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 30, 2018
- 1 min
Unprepared to learn — or even to try
Credit: ClipartXtras Having failed their way through middle school, students are passed on to high school, writes Darren Miller on Right...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 29, 2018
- 1 min
Math licensing test is too hard, say teachers
Does a third-grade teacher need to know high school math? asks Ann Doss Helms in the Charlotte Observer. “Almost 2,400 North Carolina...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2018
- 1 min
Girls call STEM come-ons ‘creepy’
Teen-age girls are groomed for the STEM lifestyle in summer coding camps. “With responses ranging from “squirming in discomfort” to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 12, 2018
- 2 min
Drill and instill math skills
To learn math, drill and instill math skills, writes Barbara Oakley in the New York Times opinion column. If it’s hard, so much the...