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    50 years of progress: Students are learning more
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 2 days ago
    • 2 min

    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...
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    'R' is for reading -- and race
    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...
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    Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost  education edge
    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...
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    How Asians excel: It's the culture
    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...
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    A vote for merit in San Francisco
    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...
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    UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
    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...
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    ‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
    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...
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    ‘Incompetence, arrogance, woke rhetoric’
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Distant cousins
    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...
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    Harvard denies anti-Asian bias
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Would UCLA hire Einstein?
    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...
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    Magnet schools turn away blacks, Latinos
    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...
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    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,...
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    California eyes ethnic studies requirement
    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...
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    End the craziness with college lottery
    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...
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