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    50 years of progress: Students are learning more
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 2 days ago
    • 2 min

    50 years of progress: Students are learning more

    Reading and math scores have increased significantly in the last 50 years -- and achievement gaps by race and family income have narrowed...
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    Rich kid, poor kid
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 4
    • 2 min

    Rich kid, poor kid

    Upward mobility is a matter of who you know, conclude the authors of a newly published study on social capital. (See the data here.)...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    Lunch Shaming

    Free and reduced lunch. Students across the country face the prospect of “lunch shaming” when their parents don’t pay whatever lunch bill...
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    Too much turnover foils turnaround
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    Too much turnover foils turnaround

    Milwaukee’s low-performing Carver Academy got more money, new leadership and “five years of attention from Milwaukee’s best minds in...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    ‘Unlikely’ to graduate

    Unlikely, a new documentary about the college dropout crisis, spotlights five students in Akron, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles who are...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Integrating by choice in San Antonio

    San Antonio is using school choice to integrate its schools — and to raise test scores, report Beth Hawkins on The 74. San Antonio’s...
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    Catching up in ‘grade 2.5’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Catching up in ‘grade 2.5’

    “Like many high-poverty middle schools, Oakland’s Elmhurst Community Prep is trying to reach students who are academically all over the...
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    Who’s #1 in graduating low-income students?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 27, 2018
    • 1 min

    Who’s #1 in graduating low-income students?

    College rankings should reward schools that help disadvantaged students graduate and boost their social mobility, writes Bridget Burns,...
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    Newark: To college, but not through college
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 26, 2018
    • 1 min

    Newark: To college, but not through college

    Newark students are more likely to go to college, but only 23 percent complete a degree or certificate in six years, concludes a new...
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    Harvard discriminates against introverts
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    Harvard discriminates against introverts

    Harvard discriminates against introverts, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education and history at Penn, in the Washington...
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    Good for the goose, bad for the gander
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    Good for the goose, bad for the gander

    When schools provide Saturday catch-up classes, disadvantaged students earn higher scores, but advantaged students do worse, concludes an...
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    Dual credit doesn’t help weak students
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    Dual credit doesn’t help weak students

    Dual-credit (or dual enrollment) programs are expanding rapidly across the nation. Students — not just high achievers — usually take...
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    Why black teachers quit
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 3, 2018
    • 1 min

    Why black teachers quit

    “In recent years, there’s been an increased push to get more teachers of color into the classroom, often highlighting large gaps between...
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    ‘Right to read’ fight shifts to California
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 31, 2018
    • 3 min

    ‘Right to read’ fight shifts to California

    The right to an education doesn’t include a right to literacy — yet. However, “a judge has ruled that California can be put on trial for...
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    Testing basic skills leads to two-tier system
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Testing basic skills leads to two-tier system

    Schools serving mainly poor and minority students end up teaching the basic skills and schools serving more advantaged students, knowing...
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    Show me the test scores
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Show me the test scores

    You want my kids to go to your schools? Show me they’re learning, writes Citizen Stewart in a defense of test-based accountability....
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    Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?

    Teachers’ unions should adopt a kid-centric policy in response to the Janus decision, writes Paul Reville in Ed Week. Leaders will need...
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    AP for all: Does it help students succeed?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    AP for all: Does it help students succeed?

    Kalan Houser took the AP World History at Port of Los Angeles High School in May. As more students take Advanced Placement classes, a...
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    Pre-K’s benefits are ‘overblown’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Pre-K’s benefits are ‘overblown’

    Universal, free (government-funded) pre-kindergarten is a popular cause, writes Russ Whitehurst, a senior fellow in Brookings’ Center on...
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    New Orleans improves — a lot
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    New Orleans improves — a lot

    “After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...
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