Joanne Jacobs
Math and science are 'every human's birthright'
There's no need to "decolonise" math, writes John Armstrong in The Spectator. He's published an open letter criticizing a proposal...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Math scores keep falling: It's not 'drill and kill'
I learned my multiplication tables in fourth grade, and they've been mine ever since. I've had my worries over the years, but figuring...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 8, 2022
- 1 min
The $1 trillion math error
Weak math skills could cost young workers as much as $1 trillion in the coming decades, warns a a new study. National test scores show...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Failing college: Covid kids can't do the math
For a year or more, their high school classes were online. Perhaps they returned to an on-and-off schedule with frequent quarantine...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Alabama (!) leads nation in minimizing learning loss
Alabama led the nation in maintaining math and reading achievement during the pandemic, reports Trisha Powell Crain of AL.com. That is,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 28, 2022
- 1 min
In search of lost time
Schools need more time to "instruct, support, and engage with students," after more than two years of disruption, writes Rick Hess,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
Tell parents truth: Enough with the happy talk
Tell parents the unpleasant truth about learning loss, writes Andrew Rotherham in a story on the state NAEP scores in the The 74. "The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min
Nation's Report Card shows 'appalling' fall in math, reading
Fourth- and eighth-graders' math and reading proficiency fell across the country after two years of disruption, reports the National...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
NYU fires tough chem prof, raises complainers' grades
Would-be doctors have to get through organic chemistry, a tough class that can be a dream killer. When NYU pre-meds earned poor grades...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
If the students don't care ...
Desperately trying to get failing students to a diploma, counselors are putting kids who can't pass Integrated Math 1 (ninth grade) into...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 20, 2022
- 1 min
Why the math learning curve is a K
Some students were learning more math, before the pandemic, while most were learning less, writes Mike Goldstein. He believes changes in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
They passed calculus, but can't add fractions
Alex Small, who teaches physics at Cal Poly Pomona, keeps seeing students who passed calculus in high school, but aren't prepared for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Closing schools was a 'wrecking ball'
"The pandemic was a wrecking ball for U.S. public education," concludes the Center for Reinventing Public Education in The State of the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Teach the children well -- without wasting time on hokum
Mixing wishful thinking with actual teaching is failing children, writes Greg Ashman, a school principal in Australia, on Filling the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Colleges drop remedial classes -- but many students are unprepared
California's community colleges will be ordered to stop offering no-credit remedial classes in nearly all cases, if Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min
Black kids are a year farther behind in math: That matters, right?
Math scores for Black nine-year-olds dropped by 13 points compared to 2020, representing a year's worth of learning, reports the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
Down, down, down
The pandemic -- and the response to the pandemic -- was a disaster for students. We knew that, but now we really know that. Reading and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
The smart get smarter
In the ten years before the pandemic, high achievers did better in math and reading while everyone else slid, writes Fordham's Michael...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
Already behind, students are asked to do less
Students fell behind in reading and math when schools closed, and they're not likely to catch up if teachers don't assign challenging...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3, 2022
- 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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