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Joanne Jacobs
2 days ago2 min read
Schools' gender, DEI policies pushed parents to the right
Parents have moved to the right, fed up by transgender and DEI policies.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 243 min read
DEI's done: Let's see what a colorblind America looks like
Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 222 min read
How 'woke' are schools?
U.S. students are exposed to anti-racist messages, but most say their teachers welcome diverse viewpoints.
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20241 min read
A black professor leaves academia: 'Critical thinking became critical feeling'
Erec Smith, formerly a professor of rhetoric and composition, got tired of colleagues calling him "inauthentically Black" because he...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20242 min read
Who's truly disadvantaged? Look at single parenting, not race or poverty
Growing up in a single-parent family is a huge disadvantage in life, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in Forbes. If racial preferences...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20242 min read
Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter
After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20242 min read
Always mediocre, teacher prep is now politicized too
Future elementary teachers get a lot of training in "equity pedagogy" at the University of Florida, writes Scott Yenor in City Journal....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20242 min read
'No excuses' model rebounds: 'A lot of anti-racist practices don't work'
Achievement fell in charters that replaced the "no excuses" model with "anti-racist practices."
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Joanne Jacobs
May 9, 20241 min read
$1 million for boys kicked out of high school for greenface photo
Two 14-year-old boys were kicked out of their Catholic high school in 2020, because a three-year-old photo of them in green acne masks...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 29, 20243 min read
A 'Colorblind America' sees race, but tries to treat people the same
"Anti-racism" is a kind of "neo-racism," argues Coleman Hughes in his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20241 min read
'Black Lives Matter' coloring book is light on black history
Brooklyn students got schooled on radical politics during Black History Month, reports Francesca Block on Free Press. Students at P.S....
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20242 min read
'Don't say gay' when you're supposed to be teaching fractions
One out of three classroom teachers are working under "gag orders" that limit their speech on gender, sexuality and critical race theory,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 24, 20242 min read
Artificial stupidity: Google's Gemini colors history
Google's new artificial intelligence tool, Gemini, isn't allowed to generate images of people any more until programmers worked the bugs...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Odysseus so white
English teachers at Oakland's College Preparatory School, one of the most expensive private schools in California, have "let go" of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 7, 20242 min read
Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mary Wood is teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir, Between the World and Me, in her AP English Language and Composition class in Chapin,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20242 min read
Psych out: Why are we teaching kids to be hopeless and helpless?
"Anti-racists" are demoralizing black students, write Julian Adorney and Jake Mackey on Quillette. Teenage depression and suicide rates...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 28, 20242 min read
More than ever, college applicants are writing about race
Writing about race is more popular than ever for black, Hispanic and indigenous college applicants, writes Bernard Mokam in the New York...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20243 min read
Teachers are fed up with student misbehavior, classroom chaos
The "new normal" of student behavior -- a toxic mix of disrespect, disruption, violence and apathy -- is driving teachers to despair,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Black parents want choices, but Chicago plans to limit options
Black parents are the most likely to choose charter, selective enrollment or magnet schools in Chicago, reports Sarah Karp for WBEZ. She...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Union-backed group claims choice is 'rooted in racism'
The union-backed Partnership for the Future of Learning has launched an anti-choice campaign charging that "voucher programs" are "deeply...
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