Joanne Jacobs
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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Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
One track for math: Is equity unfair?
Nobody takes algebra in eighth grade in San Francisco’s district schools any more, reports Ed Week‘s Stephen Sawchuk. In the name of...
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