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Mississippi rising: Look South for progress in reading achievement
Mississippi should be a role model for the nation in how to teach reading, along with Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, but old stereotypes persist.

Joanne Jacobs
10 hours ago2 min read
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How 'anti-racist' ideology hurt the students it was supposed to help
"No excuses" urban charters were closing achievement gaps, until they adopted "anti-racist" and "social justice" ideology, argues a charter founder fired for backing high expectations.

Joanne Jacobs
May 42 min read
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Single cat ladies vs. tradwives: Is motherhood right wing?
Baby-making is now seen as right-wing, and possibly racist.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 273 min read
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Asian-American computer whiz sues UC for admissions bias
The University of California is being sued by Asian-American achievers who charge racial discrimination in admissions.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 231 min read
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Schools' gender, DEI policies pushed parents to the right
Parents have moved to the right, fed up by transgender and DEI policies.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 82 min read
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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.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 243 min read
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How 'woke' are schools?
U.S. students are exposed to anti-racist messages, but most say their teachers welcome diverse viewpoints.

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 222 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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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....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20242 min read
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'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."

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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$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...

Joanne Jacobs
May 9, 20241 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 29, 20243 min read
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'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....

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20241 min read
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'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,...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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Odysseus so white
English teachers at Oakland's College Preparatory School, one of the most expensive private schools in California, have "let go" of...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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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,...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20242 min read
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