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'Long Covid' for learning loss: 14% of schools caught up in reading and math
Reading and math scores are below pre-Covid levels in 86 percent of school districts.

Joanne Jacobs
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Amok time: Elementary kids' behavior is out of control, say teachers
Student misbehavior is way up, say kindergarten and first-grade teachers. More kids are unprepared to pay attention, cooperate and show respect to classmates and teachers.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 213 min read
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Tutoring helps, but a little bit isn't enough to make a difference
Tutoring can be effective -- and affordable -- but schools have to make time for students to meet with tutors during the school day.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 27, 20252 min read
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When loneliness was a moral duty: 'My friends were untouchable, masked'
Connection leads to happiness. Covid rules isolated teens. "My friends were untouchable, unreachable, masked."

Joanne Jacobs
May 11, 20253 min read
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Following the junk science: How a health crisis became an educational disaster
While millions of European children were in school -- mostly unmasked -- U.S. policymakers ignored the science, suppressed dissent and kept schools closed.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20252 min read
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Chicago closed digital divide: Low achievers learned less, high achievers learned more
Closing the digital divide widened the achievement gap for Chicago students.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20251 min read
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Covid broke public schools: Let's build a 'future-ready' system
Education's "new normal" is horrifying. Let's build a new education system out of the ashes.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20252 min read
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McMahon's mission: What does 'send it to the states' mean?
If education is sent "to the states," will they do a better job?

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 12, 20252 min read
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How virtual learning broke a top high school's culture of excellence
Eighteen months of remote schooling broke the culture of excellence at Baltimore's City College high school.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 10, 20251 min read
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Five years to destroy public faith in schools
Public schools' response to the pandemic has caused permanent damage.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 10, 20253 min read
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Reading, math scores are out: 'The news is not good'
Reading scores are still falling on the "nation's report card," while math scores are the same.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 29, 20252 min read
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Covid school closings hurt kids' learning, health and happiness -- for nothing
Reopening schools didn't increase Covid cases, hospitalizations or deaths in five countries. But kids learned more.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20252 min read
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Biden's education legacy: Lots of spending, no new ideas
Biden's education legacy: He gave schools billions to recover from the pandemic, but didn't focus on learning.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 20, 20252 min read
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Teens are doing less homework, earning higher grades
Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Honey, we lost the parents
Democrats have lost their edge with parents of school-aged children.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20242 min read
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U.S. math scores show 'devastating' decline
U.S. students are doing much worse in math, while some other countries are improving.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Making money matter: More kids in special ed doesn't improve reading
Schools got $190 billion in emergency funding during the epidemic, write Marguerite Roza, director of Georgetown's Edunomics Lab, and...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 23, 20242 min read
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Tutoring is booming: Parents are paying to give their kids an edge
Many more parents are paying for in-person or online tutoring.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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Covid stress hurt memory, 'flexible thinking' for kids and teachers, says study
Students -- and teachers -- lost reasoning, memory and executive-function skills during the pandemic. Stress? Long Covid? Screens?

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 21, 20241 min read
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After the pandemic, more students are diagnosed with special needs
Special education numbers are up.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20242 min read
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