Joanne Jacobs
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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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 22, 20171 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...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 16, 20171 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,”...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 9, 20171 min
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...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 2, 20172 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 26, 20171 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, 20172 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 18, 20171 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 10, 20172 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 6, 20171 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 23, 20171 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 16, 20171 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 9, 20171 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 6, 20171 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, 20171 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 5, 20172 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, 20161 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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