Joanne Jacobs
A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
Integration is not parents’ priority
With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 18, 2018
- 2 min
Equity and excellence
New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6, 2018
- 3 min
Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4, 2018
- 3 min
College vs. poverty
Amarillo College’s war on poverty includes a food pantry, a clothing closet and a supply of free toiletries and “an emergency fund that...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
Core confusion
The switch to Common Core instruction was annoying, intriguing, inconsistent and sometimes unnoticeable, concludes a survey of 54...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 14, 2018
- 1 min
Glitter jars, bean bags and progress
At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 7, 2018
- 1 min
Low-income achievers can’t afford college
Zachary Wright loves College Signing Day, but hates to see low-income achievers locked out of college by high costs, he writes on...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 6, 2018
- 2 min
Elite colleges perpetuate inequality
Elite universities help well-off students do well, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. They do little for upward mobility because they...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2018
- 1 min
Curiosity kills the (achievement) gap
A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 27, 2018
- 1 min
Remember when every kid counted?
all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22, 2018
- 2 min
The little laptop that couldn’t
In 2005, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) promised to deliver rugged $100 laptops to poor children around the world, linking them to the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 17, 2018
- 1 min
Sense of belonging leads to college success
Most KIPP graduates feel a sense of belonging in college, according to a survey released by the charter network. However, “the majority...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 15, 2018
- 2 min
We’re teaching reading wrong
We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 15, 2018
- 2 min
Hungry in college?
Thirty-six percent of four-year college students and 42 percent of community-college students are “food insecure,” according to a report...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 14, 2018
- 1 min
School gym could shelter homeless families
The principal of a K-8 school in San Francisco’s gentrifying Mission District wants to shelter homeless families in the gym, reports Jill...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min
White liberals choose separate, unequal schools
White liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
The kids (many of them) aren’t alright
Family dysfunction is more common — and more devastating for children — than we think, writes Brian A. Jacob and Joseph Ryan in Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2018
- 2 min
A better school for my child
Lane Wright and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Choice integrates — and gentrifies
School choice encourages integration and gentrification in low-income, minority neighborhoods, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. “The...
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