Joanne Jacobs
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,...
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2017
- 2 min
Parents debate ‘racial civil rights’ day
John the Author is scheduled to speak at New Trier High on Feb. 28. New Trier High School on Chicago’s wealthy, white North Shore has...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 7, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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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