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Schools' gender, DEI policies pushed parents to the right
Parents have moved to the right, fed up by transgender and DEI policies.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 8, 20252 min read
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Trumpy young men (and women)
Young Americans are optimistic about Trump's presidency and moving rightward in their politics.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 23, 20252 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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Is DEI doomed?
University DEI programs are losing popularity on campus and off.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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'Woke' (or wokeish) courses are cut from core list at Florida universities
Courses that teach identity politics or systemic racism will be electives -- not core courses -- at Florida's state universities.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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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.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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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 21, 20242 min read
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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 17, 20242 min read
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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 16, 20241 min read
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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 15, 20242 min read
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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 12, 20242 min read
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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 11, 20241 min read
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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 8, 20242 min read
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Trump's back: What's next for education?
What's ahead for education in Trump's second term?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 6, 20242 min read
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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 5, 20242 min read
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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 2, 20242 min read
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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
Nov 1, 20242 min read
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Politics in the classroom: Can teachers teach the election without bias?
Should teachers teach about the election?

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 31, 20243 min read
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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 29, 20242 min read
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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 8, 20241 min read
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