Joanne Jacobs
Boys lag in reading, writing
“Three of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards” on state exams, reports Matt...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 23, 2017
- 1 min
Rutgers-Newark: Where blacks graduate
Hechinger’s Meredith Kolodner, writing in The Atlantic, explains how Rutgers-Newark helps black students graduate. Nationwide, the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 23, 2017
- 2 min
Math is dehumanizing, says ‘justice’ course
Teaching Social Justice Through Secondary Mathematics, an EdX course designed by Teach for America, doesn’t just give middle-school...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22, 2017
- 2 min
Travis thought C’s were OK — till he failed college
Telling kids they can go to college, even if they earn mediocre or poor grades, undercuts the work ethic they’ll need to succeed, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22, 2017
- 2 min
‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 6, 2017
- 1 min
Educational TV: What’s an Oreo?
Reason’s Hit & Run reminds us that they used to do children’s TV differently. The ’70s show Vegetable Soup, produced by the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2017
- 1 min
Black teachers matter — integration doesn’t
Integrated schools won’t close the racial achievement gap, argues Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II in an Education Week commentary. Black...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2017
- 1 min
55% complete college in 6 years
Of students who started college in 2010, only 54.8 percent completed a certificate or degree within six years, according to a new...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
Well-off liberals choose mostly white schools
Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 21, 2017
- 1 min
Educating the poor: What works best?
Students at KIPP South Fulton Academy in Atlanta. “No excuses” charters are more effective ways to improve prospects for disadvantaged...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 11, 2017
- 1 min
Black teacher raises black kids’ success odds
Black students are more likely to complete high school and consider college if they have at least one black teacher in elementary school,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
It’s hard to create schools that ‘work for everybody’
Creating schools that “work for everybody” is a challenge, writes Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. When the bell rings at Wheaton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
Why can’t Johnny read? It’s a parenting gap
Focusing on the racial achievement gap obscures the underlying problem, argues Ian Rowe, a visiting fellow at Fordham. The family...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2017
- 1 min
College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 20, 2017
- 2 min
Sowell’s rise: Eddie told him to switch schools
Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell was born poor and black in North Carolina in 1930. In a Wall Street Journal interview with Tunku Varadarajan,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 17, 2017
- 2 min
Discipline reform and disorder in New York City
Suspensions are down at New York City schools, but teachers and students report more disorder, disrespect, fighting, gang activity and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 8, 2017
- 1 min
High school band buys only ‘composers of color’
Band directors at a Minnesota high school include at least one piece by a composer of color and one by a female composer in each band...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 2, 2017
- 1 min
Parents matter more than race, poverty
Growing up in a fragmented, fatherless family is the greatest barrier to success for students, argues Ian Rowe on Flypaper. “Racism and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 28, 2017
- 1 min
Trump: Black colleges are a priority
President Trump met with black college leaders yesterday. Today, he signed an executive order pledging support and moving the Initiative...
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