Joanne Jacobs
Without phones, school is calmer and students are listening, talking
Banning cell phones transformed a Philadelphia high school, reports Kristen A. Graham in the Inquirer. Students were ignoring teachers --...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Learning builds resilience
It's a mistake to put "social-emotional learning" ahead of academic learning, writes Eva Moskowitz, who created the high-performing...
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 11, 2022
- 2 min
Fear not
Every night when I put my daughter to bed, I would say, "There are no wolves or bears in Palo Alto. They live a long way away." How old...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 4, 2022
- 2 min
It's college, not kindergarten
Of the three million students who will start college this fall, one million won't make it through the first year on campus or won't...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
'The child is not the creature of the state'
Parents aren't perfect. Some are very imperfect indeed. But they have the right to "direct the upbringing and education" of their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Why it's hard to close learning gaps
Student behavioral issues are a major barrier to closing learning gaps, say 67 percent teachers in a Khan Academy survey, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
4-day week appeals to teachers, students
Schools -- especially low-paying, rural schools -- are using a four-day week to recruit teachers, reports Elizabeth Heubeck in Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2022
- 3 min
Out the classroom door, but still teaching
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 5, 2022
- 1 min
Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
School shooters don’t just ‘snap’
School shooters don’t just “snap,” journalist Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
Teach students to meet deadlines, handle stress
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Zoom U was very bad for students
College students are not OK, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches first-year writing at Southern Methodist University, in a New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
The young Puritans
Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
Emotionally Disturbed Students At School
Is special education law creating dangerous conditions in American schools? In an effort to ensure that schools are “inclusive,” IDEA...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 2, 2018
- 1 min
No clapping, please. Use your ‘jazz hands’
Clapping and cheering have been banned at University of Manchester Student Union events, lest the noise upset “students with anxiety or...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 2, 2018
- 1 min
The power of struggle
Zachary Wright “had to drag my son kicking and screaming into kindergarten.” He remembered his own “struggles with anxiety, depression...
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