Joanne Jacobs
Through the metal detector to an education
“Every morning, I stand behind the metal detectors, searching bags as students enter the school,” writes Adam Stumacher, director of...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min
Anti-choice folks choose for their own kids
People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22, 2017
- 2 min
‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2017
- 1 min
Black teachers matter — integration doesn’t
Integrated schools won’t close the racial achievement gap, argues Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II in an Education Week commentary. Black...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
Well-off liberals choose mostly white schools
Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22, 2017
- 2 min
Stress can make kids smarter (in some ways)
Unstable parenting, poverty, a violent environment and other “adverse childhood experiences” contribute to “toxic stress” that impairs...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 21, 2017
- 1 min
Educating the poor: What works best?
Students at KIPP South Fulton Academy in Atlanta. “No excuses” charters are more effective ways to improve prospects for disadvantaged...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 11, 2017
- 1 min
Black teacher raises black kids’ success odds
Black students are more likely to complete high school and consider college if they have at least one black teacher in elementary school,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 11, 2017
- 1 min
Why teachers leave
Teachers leave schools because of poor working conditions — not because students come from poor families, concludes Teacher Turnover in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
It’s hard to create schools that ‘work for everybody’
Creating schools that “work for everybody” is a challenge, writes Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. When the bell rings at Wheaton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 27, 2017
- 1 min
Too poor for college
Millions of Americans start college, but never finish a degree. Why not? Poor preparation and too many competing responsibilities,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 20, 2017
- 2 min
Sowell’s rise: Eddie told him to switch schools
Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell was born poor and black in North Carolina in 1930. In a Wall Street Journal interview with Tunku Varadarajan,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 2, 2017
- 1 min
Parents matter more than race, poverty
Growing up in a fragmented, fatherless family is the greatest barrier to success for students, argues Ian Rowe on Flypaper. “Racism and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 2, 2017
- 2 min
Denisha’s story
“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” said President Trump in his speech to Congress. He called for funding “school choice...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 16, 2017
- 1 min
More money or more charter schools?
“Letting great educators open up schools is much more cost effective than increasing spending by billions of dollars,” argues Neerav...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2017
- 1 min
Work, study, dream — and stay poor
Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. Photo: Linda Lutton/WBEZ “School is what makes the American Dream possible,” writes WBEZ reporter...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 2, 2017
- 1 min
Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 20, 2016
- 2 min
If families fail, what can schools do?
Who’s your daddy? asks Ian Rowe, a Fordham fellow, who leads two charter schools in the South Bronx. That’s the message on two mobile DNA...
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