Joanne Jacobs
Gone girls and boys
District-run public schools lost nine percent of enrollment between spring 2021 and spring 2022, concludes School Disrupted by Tyton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 17
- 1 min
Teachers were more anxious about Covid than health-care workers
Teachers were more anxious than health care workers -- or anyone else -- during the first year of the pandemic, according to a newly...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15
- 1 min
NEA: 'Educators love their students' and know best what they need
The National Education Association's claim that educators "love" their students and know what's best for them is getting a lot of push...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15
- 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 10
- 1 min
'Parents feel greater ownership in their child's education'
Post-pandemic parents want to don't want to leave their children's education to the local school system, concludes a survey released Oct....
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 10
- 2 min
Most want more focus on academics, less on gender, sex
The red wave turned out to be a purple haze. Moderates outperformed extremists. Democracy did not end. Trumpery lost its luster. An...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 9
- 2 min
Virtual tutoring won't work if students don't use it
On-demand virtual tutoring has the potential to help students catch up in school, concludes a recent study of California students in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 8
- 1 min
The $1 trillion math error
Weak math skills could cost young workers as much as $1 trillion in the coming decades, warns a a new study. National test scores show...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 5
- 2 min
Pandemic amnesty: Is it time?
My resolution for 2021, renewed for 2022, was to be kind and calm. There is enough nastiness and enough hysteria out there without me...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 4
- 2 min
Failing college: Covid kids can't do the math
For a year or more, their high school classes were online. Perhaps they returned to an on-and-off schedule with frequent quarantine...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 31
- 1 min
Alabama (!) leads nation in minimizing learning loss
Alabama led the nation in maintaining math and reading achievement during the pandemic, reports Trisha Powell Crain of AL.com. That is,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 31
- 3 min
'Shades of badness' in math, reading scores
The longer urban schools stayed closed the worse their fourth-graders are doing in math, concludes an analysis of National Assessment of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 26
- 2 min
Teacher: Students can cut class, skip assignments and pass
Giving students a minimum of 50 percent on assignments -- regardless of whether they're turned in -- was a disaster, a former D.C. public...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 22
- 1 min
College enrollment just keeps falling
College enrollment continues to fall, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The number of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4
- 2 min
Public schools are losing white, middle-class students
Urban school districts are losing students, writes Matt Welch, a public school parent in New York City, in Reason. White, middle-class...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19
- 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
- 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 15
- 1 min
California: 28% switched schools in pandemic
Twenty-eight percent of California parents moved their child to a new school during the pandemic and another 28 percent are considering a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Restless in Seattle: Asians, achievers are 'quiet quitting' public schools
Asian-American and affluent parents are"quiet quitting" Seattle Public Schools, writes Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. Overall,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 13
- 1 min
Saving Xavier
Xavier Byrd, who likes to tinker with old machines and build contraptions, dreamed of being an aerospace engineer, writes Perry Stein in...