Joanne Jacobs
More math, more money
“When states raise the number of math classes they require students to take in high school,” black students take more math and go on to...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2017
- 1 min
Work, study, dream — and stay poor
Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. Photo: Linda Lutton/WBEZ “School is what makes the American Dream possible,” writes WBEZ reporter...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 16, 2017
- 2 min
Prof: Stop saying ‘microaggression’
Stop using “microaggression” or “training” students to avoid microaggressions, writes Scott. O. Lilienfeld, an Emory psychology...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 15, 2017
- 2 min
Will movie inspire more black math aces?
Hidden Figures, which is getting good reviews, tells the story of three “colored computers” who helped the U.S. win the space race. As...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9, 2017
- 1 min
‘If you want a great gay novel, write it’
More than 50 years ago, a Tulsa high school student wrote a novel about the conflict between “greasers” and rich kids. S.E. Hinton’s The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9, 2017
- 1 min
PC bans kids’ books: Slave chefs must go
If the main character of your children’s book is a slave, watch out, warns Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. It’s hard to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 2, 2017
- 1 min
Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 27, 2016
- 2 min
Bad words in good books
Author Dan Gutman, known for his My Weird School series and a baseball time travel series, responded on Facebook to parent asking whether...
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