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    Administrators return to teaching to fill shortages
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 3
    • 1 min

    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"...
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    Merit is not a myth
    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...
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    'R' is for reading -- and race
    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...
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    Data science vs. calculus
    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...
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    Don’t know much about teaching math
    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...
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    Multiple math paths to where?
    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...
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    Magical thinking on teaching math
    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:...
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    ‘Financial lit’ vs. ‘don’t buy what you can’t afford’
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Social justicing mathematx
    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...
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    Think (and draw) like a mathematician
    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...
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    Unprepared to learn — or even to try
    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...
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    Math licensing test is too hard, say teachers
    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...
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    Girls call STEM come-ons ‘creepy’
    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...
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    Drill and instill math skills
    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...
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