Joanne Jacobs
How effective is your school?
Three-quarters of Chicago Public School students come from low-income families. As third graders, they test below the second-grade level...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 28, 2017
- 1 min
Despite huge racial gap, SF rejects KIPP
Progressive San Francisco is one of the worst districts in the state when it comes to educating low-income black and Latino students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
Fear of tracking undercuts apprenticeship push
America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 23, 2017
- 1 min
Rhodes scholar: Mom finagled a better school
“Hazim Hardeman’s mother wanted a better school than the family’s North Philadelphia neighborhood could offer her son,” writes Susan...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
Teaching ‘social justice’ — or propaganda?
St. Louis teachers are turning their classrooms into “hubs of social justice,” reports Kristen Taketa for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 23, 2017
- 2 min
Teach for America turns left
Teach for America, founded in 1990 to challenge the educational status quo, has turned left, writes Sohrab Ahmari, a former TFA corps...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 16, 2017
- 1 min
Education pays — but there’s more than one way
Education is a path to upward mobility, writes Fordham’s Mike Petrilli in response to Rachel Cohen’s Atlantic story, Education Isn’t the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2017
- 2 min
To end inequality, more preschool?
“Inequality in America is apparent by age 3, writes writes Heather Long in the Washington Post. “Most rich kids are in school, while most...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
Schools vs. poverty: Poverty usually wins
Education doesn’t guarantee social mobility, writes Rachel M. Cohen in The Atlantic. “In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 11, 2017
- 1 min
ACT: 9% of disadvantaged are college ready
Huge achievement gaps separate advantaged and disadvantaged students, according to ACT’s annual The Condition of College & Career...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Enough with Wobegon: Racial gaps are huge
Every year, Minnesotans laud the excellent test scores for white students and ignore or excuse the dreadful scores for non-whites, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Success succeeds for black, Latino kids
Success Academy Charter Schools students — nearly all from low-income black and Latino families — “outperformed every district in New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 22, 2017
- 2 min
Keep ‘American dream machine’ running
My grandfather, who came to the U.S. as a boy round about 1900 — one of those huddled masses sailing past the Statue of Liberty — went to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26, 2017
- 3 min
Here We Go Again With Algebra
As a math teacher I’m often presented with what, if you think about it, is blatant rudeness: Other: What do you do? Me: I’m a math...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 15, 2017
- 1 min
Night School: Can they pass Algebra I?
Andrew Cohn’s Night School follows three adults seeking high school diplomas in Indianapolis. The documentary features Greg Henson, a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 12, 2017
- 2 min
Teach the language of power, privilege
A “language of privilege” excludes those not born to the educated classes, writes Robert Pondiscio,in response to New York Times...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10, 2017
- 1 min
‘Last-chance’ schools
“Last-chance” schools are providing alternatives to troubled students, writes Natalie Gross for the Hechinger Report. Many use...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10, 2017
- 2 min
Homeless — and on track to graduate
A Manhattan charter schools that serves the neediest teens — many of them homeless — is likely to exceed the the city’s overall...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9, 2017
- 1 min
Boys to educated men
Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 27, 2017
- 1 min
Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...
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