Joanne Jacobs
Enough with Wobegon: Racial gaps are huge
Every year, Minnesotans laud the excellent test scores for white students and ignore or excuse the dreadful scores for non-whites, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
Success succeeds for black, Latino kids
Success Academy Charter Schools students — nearly all from low-income black and Latino families — “outperformed every district in New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 24, 2017
- 3 min
Won’t know much about history
“They’re trying to take away our history,” said President Trump at an Arizona rally. He cited the middle-of-the-night removal of The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 17, 2017
- 1 min
We’re making progress on education
The U.S. is making “silent progress” on education, argues Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. She cites...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 15, 2017
- 2 min
Whites vs. Asians in college admissions
Preferences for the children of wealthy donors — mostly white — are keeping high-scoring Asian-Americans out of elite private colleges,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2017
- 1 min
‘Step’ inspires
Step, a new documentary on the “Lethal Ladies” of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, is getting rave reviews. As the girls...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
Justice Department To Address Affirmative Action at Universities
While I believe in a meritocracy, I also don’t see that it would be good for our society to have a “permanent underclass”. Accordingly,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 28, 2017
- 1 min
Getting Rid of Algebra, Part 3–The Empire Strikes Back
Is algebra itself racist because American minorities struggle to learn it? Probably not, for a number of reasons: For many decades,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 27, 2017
- 2 min
Charter Schools Are Racist? The Answer Isn’t Black and White
From Education Week: It’s been one year since members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people took the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26, 2017
- 3 min
Here We Go Again With Algebra
As a math teacher I’m often presented with what, if you think about it, is blatant rudeness: Other: What do you do? Me: I’m a math...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26, 2017
- 1 min
Male Teachers
At my elementary school, all the K-3 teachers were women and all but 1 or 2 of the Grades 4-6 teachers were men. In junior high and high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 23, 2017
- 2 min
‘Reading with Patrick’ — in class and jail
Her goal, she writes in Reading With Patrick, was to “teach American history through black literature.” The book “could be the most...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17, 2017
- 2 min
When a student calls the teacher ‘racist’
His advice ranges from the sensible (don’t get defensive or cite all the black people who think you’re not racist) to the insanely “woke”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 12, 2017
- 2 min
Teach the language of power, privilege
A “language of privilege” excludes those not born to the educated classes, writes Robert Pondiscio,in response to New York Times...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9, 2017
- 1 min
Boys to educated men
Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 30, 2017
- 2 min
Officer Friendly doesn’t work here any more
Whatever happened to Officer Friendly? asks Eric Easter of Urban News Service. “I remember Officer Friendly used to come from 1st to 4th...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 27, 2017
- 1 min
Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 21, 2017
- 2 min
Through the metal detector to an education
“Every morning, I stand behind the metal detectors, searching bags as students enter the school,” writes Adam Stumacher, director of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min
Anti-choice folks choose for their own kids
People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
Teachers of color aren’t magic solution
Teachers of color are the latest magic bullet for our education woes, writes Alina Adams on New York School Talk. Black teachers...
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