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Why black teachers quit
“In recent years, there’s been an increased push to get more teachers of color into the classroom, often highlighting large gaps between...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 3, 20181 min read
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New Orleans improves — a lot
“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20182 min read
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Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 16, 20182 min read
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Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?
The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20181 min read
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Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20183 min read
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An Evergreen Headline
Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year? Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...

Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20182 min read
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Is This <i>Really</i> Insensitive?
Or will some people look for any excuse to act aggrieved? The principal of Cherry Hill High School East has apologized for “insensitive”...

Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20182 min read
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Glitter jars, bean bags and progress
At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20181 min read
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Broken PROMISE
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20183 min read
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De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 12, 20183 min read
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We didn’t choose integration for our kids
As a second grader, Tanzi West Barbour, a black girl living in a white neighborhood in Fort Worth, was bused to an all-black school as...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20182 min read
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White liberals choose separate, unequal schools
White liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20181 min read
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Charter support rebounds
Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20181 min read
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The kids (many of them) aren’t alright
Family dysfunction is more common — and more devastating for children — than we think, writes Brian A. Jacob and Joseph Ryan in Education...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 30, 20182 min read
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A better school for my child
Lane Wright and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20182 min read
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Black boys, but not girls, earn less than whites
“Even when children grow up next to each other with parents who earn similar incomes, black boys fare worse than white boys,” concludes a...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20182 min read
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‘White privilege’ goes too far in Oconomowoc
“Privilege” is too touchy a topic for parents in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, a mostly affluent, mostly white town, reports Annysa Johnson for...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 18, 20181 min read
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White girl plays racist in school play
Anastasia Bertram, 7, one of the only white students at her Georgia elementary school, was cast as a segregationist in the school play,...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20182 min read
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Discipline reform: Did it go too far?
Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 7, 20182 min read
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Teaching ‘Black Panther’
Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 3, 20181 min read
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