Joanne Jacobs
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...
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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,...
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