Joanne Jacobs
Undercover in high school
In A&E’s Undercover High, which debuts Oct. 10, seven young adults ranging in age from 21 to 26 pose as teen-agers to attend a Topeka...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 1, 2017
- 2 min
Coming to theaters: Lady of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, beloved of high school English teachers and nobody else, was turned into not-very-good movies in 1963 and again in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 25, 2017
- 1 min
‘Atypical’ draws cheers, boos
Atypical, a new Netflix show about a family that includes a high school boy with autism, is drawing mixed reviews, writes Mark Walsh on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
Justice Department To Address Affirmative Action at Universities
While I believe in a meritocracy, I also don’t see that it would be good for our society to have a “permanent underclass”. Accordingly,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 17, 2017
- 1 min
Gift for grads: Digital clean-up service
Looking cool — or stupid? Getting ready for college now means cleaning up your online image, writes Taylor Lorenz on Mashable. Many high...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 9, 2017
- 2 min
Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2017
- 1 min
Educational TV: What’s an Oreo?
Reason’s Hit & Run reminds us that they used to do children’s TV differently. The ’70s show Vegetable Soup, produced by the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22, 2017
- 1 min
Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why
In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 15, 2017
- 1 min
Julia moves to Sesame Street
Julia, a Muppet on the autism spectrum, has made her debut on Sesame Street. Elmo, Abby Cadabby and Big Bird learn to play a little...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 8, 2017
- 1 min
‘Gifted’ vs. happy
Gifted pits a mellow, loving uncle against his cold, controlling mother in a custody battle over a cute little mathematical...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Teach knowledge to fight ‘fake’ facts
“Media literacy” — teaching students to distinguish between “fake” news, propaganda, hype and reliable information — is all the rage,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 10, 2017
- 1 min
Why Grover is the STEM monster
Sesame Street’s STEM monster is mistake-prone Grover, reinvented as Super Grover 2.0, writes Kate Stringer on The 74. Whenever the furry...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 4, 2017
- 2 min
Decoding the world, through Disney movies
Life, Animated didn’t win the Oscar for best documentary (blame O.J. Simpson), but the movie about Disney and autism is well worth...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 31, 2016
- 1 min
Adios, 2016
From Dave Barry’s 2016 Year in Review: “The New York Times and Washington Post, seeking to improve their understanding of pro-Trump...
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