Joanne Jacobs
Is this equity? White liberals think it's 'racially enlightened' to lower standards
In Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity, Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler, a Shaker Heights native, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 12
- 2 min
'Equitable grading' is racism with a smile
Students don't have to turn in assignments on time -- or at all. The minimum grade for work is 50 percent, even if the student did...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 17
- 2 min
Detracking in Shaker Heights: 'Honors' for all, lower expectations
All Shaker Heights students take honors classes -- or classes with an "honors" label. The "enriched" and "advanced" tracks are gone,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 24
- 2 min
Black history in Florida: 'Strong, valuable people'
Alex Haley's Roots, which traced his ancestors back to Africa, was a very big deal when it was shown on TV in 1977. I was surprised to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 3 min
Biden opposes 'privilege,' except when his granddaughter applied to Penn
Harvard's admissions break for children of alumni and donors "discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost" to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Educate the 99%, who got no help from affirmative action
"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15
- 2 min
If colleges can't use race for admissions, what happens?
The U.S. Supreme Court to end racial preferences in college admissions, very soon, just about everyone predicts. So what happens next?...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Conservative moms are hate-filled 'extremists,' says SPLC
Moms for Liberty, conservatives who "do not co-parent with the government" and oppose gender-identity lessons in schools, made the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Public is divided on public schools
Most Democrats say the public schools positive effect on the U.S. Most Republicans disagree. The partisan divide on the value of public...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Back in the USA
We returned from Barcelona last night, so I'm a bit jet-lagged -- and where was my breakfast buffet this morning? -- but the blog is...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 16
- 1 min
Make peace, not culture war
"Liberal Patriot" Ruy Teixeira advises Democrats to stop fighting culture wars and make peace with middle-ground voters. For example,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 1
- 1 min
'Diversity statements' are out in North Carolina, Texas ...
Would-be professors will not be asked to pledge allegiance to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) to be considered for a job at the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 20
- 2 min
AP African American Studies: None dare call it 'systemic'
The new Advanced Placement African American studies course was revised after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it anti-racist...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 2
- 2 min
AP African American Studies purges critical race, queer theorists
Critical race theory, queer theory and black feminist literature are out of the core curriculum in the revised version of College Board's...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 29
- 2 min
The sound of stupid
The Sound of Music is not the Nazi-glorifying Triumph of the Will, nor is it the Nazi-spoofing Springtime for Hitler. But it does have...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 22
- 1 min
School board member tweets: 'Whiteness is so evil'
Tweeting "whiteness is so evil" has proven controversial for Kesha Hamilton, who's on the Jackson (Michigan) school board, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 16
- 1 min
'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'
"We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom," Martin Luther King Jr....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Sneetches are racist! No, they're anti-racist! Or maybe ...
Dr. Seuss's Sneetches learn that outward differences don't matter. There's no need to pay to get a star added or removed from their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 8
- 1 min
A sharp right turn for Florida's New College: 'We are recapturing higher ed'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to turn the very progressive New College of Florida, the state's liberal arts honors college, into a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 3
- 3 min
NAACP pushes for literacy reform: Teach our kids to read
Black leaders have transformed reading instruction in northern Virginia, reports Sarah Carr in the Washington Post. The Fairfax County...
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