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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    A not-so-integrated high school

    America to Me, now on Starz, explores a suburban Chicago high school where black and white students “find themselves on different tracks,...
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    Digital readers crave excitment
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    Digital readers crave excitment

    She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...
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    For teens, texting crowds out books, TV
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    For teens, texting crowds out books, TV

    For today’s teens, “time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV,” concludes Jean Twenge, author of...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    What it’s like in ‘Eighth Grade’

    I have no desire to remember my eighth-grade self. If the new movie Eighth Grade captures what it’s like to be an insecure 13-year-old, I...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    ‘Lofi’ tunes help teens study

    Today’s students don’t like to study in silence. A new kind of internet radio known as “lo-fi hip-hop” or “chillhop” is helping students...
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    Not so smart no more
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Not so smart no more

    IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Incredibles are back

    Incredibles 2 is a winner, writes Tyler O’Neil on PJ Media. The family of superheroes works together to defeat Screenslaver, who “uses...
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    Tackling ‘culture’ — but not tools — of violence
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    Tackling ‘culture’ — but not tools — of violence

    The Trump administration’s school safety commission will examine the “culture of violence,” but not the role of guns, Education Secretary...
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    Columbine copycats
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Columbine copycats

    The Columbine killers have “inspired” a wave of teen-age boys and young men to attack schools, colleges and other easy targets, reports...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who Controls The Speech?

    It’s de rigeur on campus today to control speech, especially that of conservative speakers.  It’s odd indeed to hear that access to John...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    ‘Rise’ debuts, but you’ve seen it before

    Rise, NBC’s new high school drama, premieres tonight at 10 Eastern. It’s Friday Night Lights meets Glee, writes Ed Week‘s Mark Walsh. A...
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    Teaching ‘Black Panther’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 3, 2018
    • 1 min

    Teaching ‘Black Panther’

    Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons...
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    Having the ‘social media talk’ with a 7-year-old
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    Having the ‘social media talk’ with a 7-year-old

    When is a child ready for social media asks Judi Ketteler in the New York Times. Her 9-year-old son is showing off his flips on...
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    Can schools police social media? Should they?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Can schools police social media? Should they?

    A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    1 K-12 reporter for 7.7 million people

    Only two full-time K-12 education reporters cover the San Francisco Bay Area for the major newspapers, I wrote on The Grade a few weeks...
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    Your baby is not Einstein
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jan 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Your baby is not Einstein

    A Colorado mother shot the first video for her child in 1996. “Five years later, she sold the company to Disney for a reported $25...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jan 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who’s reporting education news?

    Newspapers have slashed education reporting in the San Francisco Bay Area: Two K-12 reporters (who also cover kids, families and breaking...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 29, 2017
    • 1 min

    Parents choose commercial-free kids’ TV

    Fewer children are watching traditional children’s television, such as Saturday morning cartoons, writes Rob Toledo in Exstreamist. “More...
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    Tots shift from TV to tablets
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    Tots shift from TV to tablets

    Young children average 48 minutes a day on mobile devices, up from five  minutes in 2011, according to The Common Sense Census: Media Use...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 16, 2017
    • 1 min

    High school on Netflix

    Netflix is debuting a new movie and a new comedy series set in high schools, reports Mark Walsh in Ed Week. The movie, “#RealityHigh,”...
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