Joanne Jacobs
Yale liberals: We envy conservatives because they're learning to think and we're not
Yale liberals say they envy conservative classmates who are learning how to understand other points of view and argue for their ideas.
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 212 min read
Edumania! McMahon is tapped as education secretary
Pro wrestling executive and former Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon will be the next and possibly last Education...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 172 min read
Oklahoma school leaders pray for state superintendent to shut up and leave them alone
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters was once a high school history teacher, but seems to have forgotten about the First Amendment's rule...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 161 min read
Young teachers like Trump?
Only 50 percent of educators -- 35 percent of those under 40 -- said they'd vote for Kamala Harris in a pre-election survey.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 152 min read
De-woke schooling: Send the DEI trainers on a one-way 'privilege walk'
Pennsylvania educators will not have to affirm their belief in microaggressions, implicit bias or the illegitimacy of "economic,...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 122 min read
Trump will make education great again -- and also leave it to the states
President Trump's education agenda calls for more federal say and more local control.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 111 min read
Identity politics lost: It's time for the great rethink in education
"Your ancestors weren't villains," the meme declares. "Don't apologize for them to people who hate you." Conor Friedersdorf points out...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 82 min read
How to lose: Parents don't want kids to see blowjobs in library books
"A lot of Americans have kids in public schools," writes Eduwonk Andrew Rotherham. " They want normal ." They don't want sexualized...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 62 min read
Trump's back: What's next for education?
What's ahead for education in Trump's second term?
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 52 min read
Teaching fragility
Students stressed by the election results can skip classes tomorrow at their elite New York City private school, reports Christopher Maag...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22 min read
What parents want: Teach reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, civics and ...
Parents on the left, right and center agree that schools should teach reading, writing, math and civics, writes David M. Houston, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12 min read
Democrats take over school board, but books stay 'banned'
When a Pennsylvania school board flipped from Republican to Democratic control, some policies changed -- but many did not.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 313 min read
Politics in the classroom: Can teachers teach the election without bias?
Should teachers teach about the election?
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 292 min read
Who will lead us out of the education depression?
"We're in the midst of an "education depression," an "era of shrinking outcomes and opportunity," writes Tim Daly. From 1990 to 2013,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 81 min read
39% of public-school parents are satisfied with their child's school
Only 39% of public school parents are satisfied with their child's school compared to 70% of private school parents.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 72 min read
Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 62 min read
If the government decides what's 'misinformation,' free speech is dead
Politicians who want to protect us from "misinformation" or "hate speech" want to end free speech.
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 292 min read
71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 282 min read
Americans still want their kids to go to college, but ...
Most people worry about college costs, but want their children to go to a two-year or four-year college.
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 242 min read
U.S. history teachers prefer DIY curriculum to textbooks
U.S. history teachers are using "digital sources and primary documents" rather than textbooks , according to a report by the American...
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