Joanne Jacobs
'Hungry Caterpillar' is banned as school purges pre-2008 books
Books published before 2008 have been removed from school library shelves in a school district near Toronto, Canada, reports Nicole...
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Joanne Jacobs
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Yale changes admissions, avoids bias lawsuit
Elite colleges have "rolled out new application questions this fall to provide students with opportunities to discuss their racial...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 13
- 2 min
Love, marriage, honor roll: Culture closes 'excellence gaps'
Culture explains why Asian-American students do so well in school, writes Helen Raleigh, who's Asian American, in The Federalist. It's...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Low-SES Asians are top students: Can 'excellence gap' be closed?
A middle school in a working-class, mostly Hispanic neighborhood in San Jose started teaching algebra after a wave of Vietnamese refugee...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 19
- 2 min
Colleges ask students to write about identity -- in a constitutional-ish way
Asked by his first-choice college about a challenge he'd overcome, "Frank" wrote about struggling with algebra in ninth grade. He'd...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Focus on who gets out of poverty, not who gets into Harvard
Obsessing over who gets into elite colleges and universities is an odd preoccupation for progressives, argues Francisco Toro on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Very rich lacrosse-playing 'legacies' have an Ivy edge
The very rich are different: They can get their kids into ultra-selective universities. Upper-middle-class won't do it. And it helps -- a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22
- 3 min
Malice: STEM students mock trans survey
Asked their gender, race and disability status, a surprising number of engineering and computer science students identify as military...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17
- 3 min
If Moms for Liberty ain't happy, ain't nobody happy
The slogan "We don't co-parent with the government" has mobilized "an enormous and growing" number of Americans, writes Robert Pondiscio,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6
- 1 min
Prep disadvantaged kids for Ivy futures
Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 30
- 2 min
Racial 'gamification' will go on unless students refuse to play
Elite universities reward applicants -- students and job-hunting professors -- who can play racial identity games, writes Tyler Austin...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 29
- 3 min
SCOTUS: Universities can admit on 'challenges bested,' but not on skin color
Racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, striking down affirmative action plans...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Poor blacks get nothing from affirmative action
Affirmative action in college admissions has failed to help disadvantaged black students, writes Bertrand Cooper in The Atlantic. If the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 22
- 1 min
A 'lost generation' of learning: Scores fall, gaps widen for 13-year-olds
America's 13-year-olds are moving backwards educationally, according to a new report on long term trends by the National Assessment of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Ya gotta believe in 'the other CRT' if you want to teach
"Culturally relevant teaching" has spread rapidly, but it's getting some push back, writes Michael Torres on City Journal. "Families,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Students give their schools a B-
The good news is that two-thirds of students give their schools an A or B grade in a Gallup/Walton survey of students in grades 5 to 12....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Race-based affirmative action isn't popular
Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7
- 3 min
Charters are outperforming traditional public schools
Charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools, according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 23
- 1 min
Textbooks are light on Latino history -- except for Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. history textbooks don't include much about Latino Americans, concludes a report by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19
- 2 min
Students don't learn more from a same-race teacher
Elementary students don't learn more from a teacher who matches them in race or ethnicity, concludes a new study. There is little...
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