Joanne Jacobs
Black boys, but not girls, earn less than whites
“Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys,” concludes a...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
‘White privilege’ goes too far in Oconomowoc
“Privilege” is too touchy a topic for parents in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, a mostly affluent, mostly white town, reports Annysa Johnson for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 6, 2018
- 2 min
Hugs and guns to keep kids safe
Pamela Revels “dispenses hugs and smiles” at schools around Auburn, Alabama, reports the New York Times in a story about school resource...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 27, 2018
- 1 min
Closing the gap in Chicago
Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 26, 2018
- 1 min
Help parents help kids before they start school
Education reformers are working hard to “rescue” children who arrive at school without the language skills, knowledge and emotional...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2018
- 3 min
Screen waivers
Upper-middle-class parents are worried about screen time, writes Michael J. Petrilli. They worry about attention deficit disorder,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2018
- 1 min
Despite legal fights, charters thrive in Washington state
Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 6, 2018
- 2 min
Integration’s limits
Success Academy Cobble Hill is one of a handful of New York City schools with a racially and economically diverse student body and a very...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 5, 2018
- 3 min
Lost Einsteins: Screen ’em all to close ‘gifted gap’
Screening all children for giftedness could help close the “gifted gap” and reduce inequality, suggests a Fordham report. Only 6.1...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 5, 2018
- 1 min
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged kids
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged students become achievers, writes Greg Ashman, who teaches in Australia. He cites an OECD working...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 4, 2018
- 2 min
Can charters be ‘schools of virtue’
Urban Catholic schools are closing, victims of an obsolete funding model, writes Stephanie Saroki de García of Seton Partners. The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 26, 2018
- 1 min
Disabled kids need well-off parents
Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 26, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t wait to get students on track
In the U.S., disadvantaged kids start school behind on vocabulary and cultural experiences, then fall farther behind as they go through...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2018
- 1 min
To get to equity, teach ’em to read
Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 18, 2018
- 2 min
SAT/ACT for all
To get more smart, disadvantaged students into better colleges, all students should take the SAT or ACT free of charge, argues Susan...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 27, 2017
- 1 min
Racial quotas for special ed?
Percentage of children and youth ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by race/ethnicity: 2014–15...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 26, 2017
- 1 min
Integration doesn’t mean equality
School integration is a mirage, writes RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. Cambridge,Massachusetts is a “leader in school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 13, 2017
- 2 min
Open doors to accelerated classes
Open the doors to advanced classes to a wide range of students, argues AP social studies teacher Nate Bowling on EdWeek...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...
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