Joanne Jacobs
Let AI spot disadvantaged students with high potential
Some have proposed an admission lottery for candidates who meet qualifications. Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard economics professor,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 16
- 1 min
Most don't want schools to 'say' LGBTQ
Most Americans don't think young children are ready for lessons about sexuality and gender, writes Morgan Polikoff, a USC education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 21
- 2 min
'Red wave' includes frustrated parents
Education is an "iceberg" that will sink Democrats' chances in the midterms, argues Hugh Hewitt in a Washington Post commentary....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 20
- 2 min
'Protect our kids from graphic porn' in the school library
Parents who object to sexually explicit books in school libraries have been labeled "book banners," writes Max Eden, a research fellow at...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 17
- 2 min
Teaching controversial issues is OK for teens, but not younger students
Most Americans want schools to teach older students about controversial issues, according to USC's Understanding America Survey, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 5
- 1 min
Ed prof says there are 2 sexes, keeps her job
University of Southern Maine will not fire an education professor for saying there are two biological sexes, reports Troy R. Bennett in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 29
- 3 min
Who decides what books belong in the school library? Can we talk about it?
You probably can't find Hustler in the school library -- or Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal, write Jay Greene and Robert Pondiscio in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 26
- 3 min
Instead of gender dogma, why not say: 'There's no wrong way to be you'
Seven states now require schools to teach about gender identity: California’s Department of Education tells kindergarten teachers that...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 3
- 2 min
School can't ban Christian club, OK 'Satanic Temple'
You don't have to be Christian to join the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) at Pioneer High School in San Jose. You don't have to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26
- 1 min
Public trusts teachers, but not so much on racism or gender
Sixty-three percent of people trust local public-school teachers according to a new poll by PDK, an educators' group, reports Libby...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost education edge
Voters in battleground states trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on education issues, according to a new Hart poll...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 1 min
‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13
- 1 min
If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’
A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4
- 1 min
Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4
- 3 min
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Feds: No free lunch without LGBTQI+ conformity
School cafeterias are not segregated by gender or sexuality in any state in the union. School sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6, 2018
- 1 min
66% of Gen Z are solely heterosexual
Two-thirds of 16- to 22-year-olds in “Generation Z” say they’re solely heterosexual, according to a recent survey conducted in Britain,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 23, 2018
- 2 min
How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
Teaching that it’s OK to be gay
NBC News reports on integrating gay, lesbian and transgender issues into classrooms in Colorado. Seven states have “no promo homo” laws...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 6, 2018
- 2 min
. . . and ‘theyby’ makes three
New York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...