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    Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 3 days ago
    • 2 min

    Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'

    When schools closed in 2020, support for schools remained strong, but the public's faith in the quality of their local schools has...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 16
    • 1 min

    Black male teachers are not security guards

    If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns....
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    Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 13
    • 1 min

    Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24

    Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
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    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 11
    • 2 min

    Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’

    Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s...
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    Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 31
    • 2 min

    Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read

    Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: “What have you done personally or...
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    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22
    • 1 min

    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint

    Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals,...
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    Causing discomfort remains legal
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    Causing discomfort remains legal

    Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
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    What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    What’s ‘age appropriate’ for young students?

    Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on when children are ready for painful topics, writes Marta W....
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    Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 9
    • 1 min

    Teaching about racism: Americans are divided

    Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...
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    Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 5
    • 2 min

    Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?

    While social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Closing the Racial Achievement Gap, Or Not

    A contrarian view, to be sure, but I can’t say the author’s wrong: In 2015, MCPS (Montgomery County, MD, Public Schools) embarked on a...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 1 min

    Segregation?

    What are the possible explanations for this phenomenon? But more troubling, and often less discussed, is the modern-day form of...
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    If schooling was as important as football
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    If schooling was as important as football

    Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Black boys lack ‘a teacher who looks like me’

    Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
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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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    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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    Less discipline, more disorder
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 16, 2018
    • 2 min

    Less discipline, more disorder

    – Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
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    Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?

    The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the...
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    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...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    An Evergreen Headline

    Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year?  Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...
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