Joanne Jacobs
50 years of progress: Students are learning more
Reading and math scores have increased significantly in the last 50 years -- and achievement gaps by race and family income have narrowed...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22
- 3 min
'R' is for reading -- and race
K-2 teachers won't be switching to a new research-backed, phonics-based literacy curriculum this fall, reports Dana Goldstein in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost education edge
Voters in battleground states trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on education issues, according to a new Hart poll...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 2 min
How Asians excel: It's the culture
Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio, Texas holds the National Spelling Bee trophy with her family. Photo: Reuters Don't tell Asian-American...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 5
- 2 min
A vote for merit in San Francisco
San Francisco Mayor London Breed replaced the recalled school-board members with three parents (clockwise from top left): Lisa...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6
- 1 min
UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 6
- 1 min
‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 25
- 2 min
‘Incompetence, arrogance, woke rhetoric’
The San Francisco school board’s vote to abolish merit-based admissions at Lowell High School amidst claims merit is “racist” angered...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10, 2020
- 1 min
Didn’t Someone Once Write A Book…
…about getting Hispanic students into college, and supporting them while they’re there? USA Today reports: Pushed by their parents and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
A More Inclusive Literature Curriculum?
Canon, that which transfers our cultural heritage to the next generation, is out. Giving everyone’s feelings a voice is in: Most English...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
The School Environment
If it’s a secret to the rest of the world, it’s not a secret to America’s teachers–school discipline is getting worse and worse. In...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 17, 2018
- 1 min
Distant cousins
Harvard once touted Elizabeth Warren as its first “woman of color” on the law faculty. A DNA test now reveals that one of the senator’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 16, 2018
- 2 min
Harvard denies anti-Asian bias
Harvard’s admissions process is on trial, charged with bias against Asian-American students, reports Anemona Hartocollis in the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min
‘Unlikely’ to graduate
Unlikely, a new documentary about the college dropout crisis, spotlights five students in Akron, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles who are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Integrating by choice in San Antonio
San Antonio is using school choice to integrate its schools — and to raise test scores, report Beth Hawkins on The 74. San Antonio’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 15, 2018
- 1 min
Would UCLA hire Einstein?
Would UCLA hire Albert Einstein as a professor? asks Heather Mac Donald in the Los Angeles Times. Starting this fall, all faculty...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Magnet schools turn away blacks, Latinos
Magnet schools in Hartford, Connecticut are turning away black and brown students in the name of integration, reports Erika Sanzi on Good...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 1, 2018
- 1 min
A not-so-integrated high school
America to Me, now on Starz, explores a suburban Chicago high school where black and white students “find themselves on different tracks,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 22, 2018
- 2 min
California eyes ethnic studies requirement
Ethnic studies will not be a graduation requirement — yet – -in California, reports Elizabeth Castillo on CALMatters. Citing the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
End the craziness with college lottery
Stanford offered admission to 2,040 of the 47,450 students who applied in 2018: That’s 4.3 percent, a new low. Most of the 45,410 who...