Joanne Jacobs
Conservative teachers are quiet
Teachers who are on the political right "speak in whispers behind closed doors," says Daniel Buck in an interview with Rick Hess....
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Joanne Jacobs
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Seattle parents fight homeless camp near school
Seattle parents protested a homeless camp less than a block from their children's elementary school yesterday, reports Jeremy Harris for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Education fads will make learning decline worse
"As bad as the pandemic was for student learning," some education fads will make it worse, writes Greg Richmond, superintendent of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Ukrainian refugee girl flees unsafe San Francisco school
Yana and her mother fled Ukraine and found a new home with an aunt in San Francisco -- until the 13-year-old girl started Marina Middle...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 14
- 3 min
'Challenging' students with disabilities are sent home (but not suspended)
Schools aren't supposed to suspend special-needs students if their misbehavior is related to their disability. But some schools use...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Teachers are quitting because of classroom chaos
Soft discipline policies make teachers' jobs much harder, writes Daniel Buck, who's taught in a variety of schools. A friend quit after...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Teachers are angry about shooting, but not shocked
"A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Unsafe at school
Angry teachers in Newport News, Virginia blame lax discipline for a 6-year-old shooting his first-grade teacher, write Ben Finley and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Do 'red flag' laws prevent shootings?
“I just might come to yo school and kill everybody,” a 17-year-old former student wrote in an Instagram message. He specifically...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Generation Doom: Show students a path forward
Teachers should encourage young people to believe in the future, writes Alice Dominguez on EdSurge. The Doomer Generation needs a sense...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Tolerating misbehavior undercuts learning
A six-year-old boy shot and nearly killed his first-grade teacher at a Newport News, Virginia school last week. The teacher was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
'You could shoot your eye out'
I saw National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time on Christmas Eve -- I'm always just a bit behind the culture -- and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 17, 2022
- 3 min
'Are my kids going to be scared to come to school?'
Two teen-age boys were killed yesterday, and a boy and girl were wounded as they left their Chicago high school at the end of the day,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Feds push 'threat assessment' to prevent school shootings
The young man who murdered 17 students and staffers at a Parkland, Florida high school he once attended, was sentenced to life in prison...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
Woke charters stress 'anti-racism,' but parents want excellence
Urban parents' vision of a good school hasn't changed, writes Robert Pondiscio on Education Next. They want "safety, solid academics,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2022
- 1 min
Scared of school: 45% favor arming teachers
I try to imagine Miss Lawson, my kindergarten teacher, packing heat. Mrs. Roston? Miss Bletsch? Of course, in my day, schools didn't have...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
States limit ‘active shooter’ drills
“Active shooter drills” terrify students, but do they make them any safer? Photo: Education Week When schools do fire drills, they don’t...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9, 2022
- 3 min
School police: Do they make students safer?
In response to the shooting of 19 children and two adults, Uvalde, Texas school officials want to hire more police officers, writs Robby...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
CA school officials must report threats — or not
Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under...
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