Joanne Jacobs
From Walmart Academy to a bachelor's degree in business
With credit for workplace training and Walmart’s tuition-assistance program, Bonnie Boop earned an online business degree, reports NPR's...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 19
- 1 min
In college, but not in class: Kids with 'snowplow parents' give up easily
Absenteeism -- physical and mental -- is high for college students too.
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10
- 1 min
NY high school becomes storm shelter for migrants
Students at Brooklyn's James Madison High School "were kicked out of the classroom" today "to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants" from a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6, 2023
- 2 min
Why parents choose virtual schools
Virtual schooling has a bad reputation, writes Ian Kingsbury, a senior fellow at the Educational Freedom Institute, in City Journal....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 25, 2023
- 2 min
Dual enrollment soars, but is it really college?
Sarah Olufemi-Dada is graduating from her Texas high school with a diploma, an associate science and a full scholarship to Stanford,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 15, 2023
- 2 min
Is a religious charter school kosher?
Oklahoma is considering approval of the first religious charter school in the U.S., reports Andrea Eger in Tulsa World. A state board is...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 13, 2023
- 2 min
The students who never returned
A quarter-million students who left public schools during the pandemic are missing, according to an analysis of 21 states and the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 9, 2023
- 3 min
Khan: Students hit the wall in Algebra I if they don't know 3 x 7 = 21
Remote instruction led to disastrous learning losses," especially in math, according to conclusive research, writes Kevin Mahnken on The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 7, 2023
- 2 min
No more snow days? Not yet
Snow days have not been canceled, despite the rise of remote learning, writes Nathan M. Sorber, a higher education professor at West...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Some like it virtual: Will online students learn less?
Enrollment is climbing in virtual schools, even as pandemic fears wane, reports Asher Lehrer-Small on The 74. Online schools saw an...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
College students lost learning too, but how much?
Universities aren't even trying to figure out how much students lost when classes went remote, writes Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
Louisiana eyes requiring summer school for struggling readers
Louisiana students not reading at grade level in K-4 would be required to attend summer school -- or repeat a grade -- under a proposal...
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
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
22 weeks of lost learning
Remote students’ learning losses are worse than educators are willing to acknowledge, writes Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s...
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 16, 2022
- 1 min
Remote ed was double-whammy for poor students
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2018
- 1 min
Educational videos don’t have to be boring
Screen time isn’t necessarily wasted time, writes Mike Petrilli. His 10-year-old son learned about Admiral Yi Sun-sin, who defended Korea...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Online colleges target California
Online colleges are recruiting like crazy in California, reports Gary Robbins in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Penn State, the University...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 6, 2018
- 1 min
California offers training for ‘stranded workers’
California is moving ahead with an online college for “stranded workers,” reports Mikhail Zinshteyn on EdSource. It will offer short-term...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min
Online degree expands college access
Georgia Tech’s online master’s in computer science program enabled mid-career workers to earn a degree that would have been out of reach...
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