Joanne Jacobs
Prof: Stop saying ‘microaggression’
Stop using “microaggression” or “training” students to avoid microaggressions, writes Scott. O. Lilienfeld, an Emory psychology...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 14, 20172 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20171 min read
‘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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20171 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 1, 20171 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20162 min read
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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