Joanne JacobsDec 6, 20232 minMath crisis is global: US teens do worse on PISA, but so do othersThe bad news from international testing: U.S. 15-year-olds did significantly worse in math from 2018 to 2022 on the Program for...
Joanne JacobsNov 20, 20232 minMissing dyslexiaSchools are failing to diagnose dyslexia, which makes it hard for as many as 20 percent of students to master reading, writes Sarah Carr...
Joanne JacobsNov 20, 20232 minOnly 1.2% to repeat 3rd grade due to Tennessee 'reading gate'Sixty percent of Tennessee third graders faced the prospect of repeating the grade, but only 1.2 percent failed to get past the "reading...
Joanne JacobsNov 6, 20232 minTo kill 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Ninth-graders aren't reading To Kill a Mockingbird this year in Mukilteo, Washington, an affluent, mostly white town north of Seattle. ...