Joanne Jacobs
To get to equity, teach ’em to read
Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 26, 2017
- 1 min
Integration doesn’t mean equality
School integration is a mirage, writes RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. Cambridge,Massachusetts is a “leader in school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 13, 2017
- 2 min
Open doors to accelerated classes
Open the doors to advanced classes to a wide range of students, argues AP social studies teacher Nate Bowling on EdWeek...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 28, 2017
- 1 min
Despite huge racial gap, SF rejects KIPP
Progressive San Francisco is one of the worst districts in the state when it comes to educating low-income black and Latino students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 28, 2017
- 2 min
Soft discipline is bigotry of low expectations
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears to be gearing up to rescind Obama-era discipline policies. A 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter warned...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
Fear of tracking undercuts apprenticeship push
America’s history of tracking could doom proposals for youth apprenticeships, writes New America’s Abigail Swisher. Would a robust system...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 13, 2017
- 2 min
Why I’m not involved in my kid’s school
Jung-ah Choi, a “college faculty member, teaching and writing about social justice, race, and education,” isn’t involved in her son’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
Teaching ‘social justice’ — or propaganda?
St. Louis teachers are turning their classrooms into “hubs of social justice,” reports Kristen Taketa for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 24, 2017
- 1 min
White teachers expect less of black students
White teachers’ low expectations for their black students could become “self-fulfilling prophecies,” concludes an analysis published in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 24, 2017
- 2 min
Prof: Math ‘operates as Whiteness’
A free online class on integrating social justice into high school math has been revised to focus on “social issues,” reports Toni...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 15, 2017
- 1 min
Biloxi pulls ‘Mockingbird’ for use of ‘n-word’
Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 11, 2017
- 1 min
Needed: black male teachers
“Low-income black students who have just one black teacher in grades 3-5 are more likely to graduate and consider college,” a recent...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 9, 2017
- 2 min
Scores slip after ‘equity’ focus
“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in 2013. Test scores are falling,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 7, 2017
- 1 min
Seuss museum will remove ‘racist’ mural
replace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 7, 2017
- 2 min
Is The Cat in the Hat racist?
Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 27, 2017
- 1 min
Blacks leave Minneapolis district schools
Parents cite “safety concerns” and “a belief that academics elsewhere are better,” they write. MPS “has struggled for years to close the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 14, 2017
- 2 min
Revoke federal letter on suspensions, race
School safety is more important than racial balance in suspensions, argues Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal. Education Secretary...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 11, 2017
- 1 min
ACT: 9% of disadvantaged are college ready
Huge achievement gaps separate advantaged and disadvantaged students, according to ACT’s annual The Condition of College & Career...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 31, 2017
- 1 min
Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...
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