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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Rightward Ho: Americans are more likely to be social conservatives
Are there two sexes? Americans in 2023 are slightly more likely to say that gender is binary than they were in 2021, according to a new...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20232 min read
Conservative moms are hate-filled 'extremists,' says SPLC
Moms for Liberty, conservatives who "do not co-parent with the government" and oppose gender-identity lessons in schools, made the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20232 min read
Public is divided on public schools
Most Democrats say the public schools positive effect on the U.S. Most Republicans disagree. The partisan divide on the value of public...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20231 min read
No sex shows for kids in Texas: Why is this controversial?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would ban staging "sexually explicit shows in front of children," reports William...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20231 min read
Parents against Pride: 'Leave our kids alone'
Parents -- many of them Armenian immigrants -- protested a Pride assembly at a Los Angeles elementary school, reports Clara Harter for...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20232 min read
If Mia becomes Mike, parents want to know
If Jayden was cutting school, failing classes and getting in fights, he might not want his parents to know. But his teacher wouldn't keep...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 24, 20232 min read
Surgeon General: Social media is hazardous for your kids' health
Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 3, 20232 min read
Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all
Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Teach about gender identity -- but just the facts, person who produces eggs
Florida banned teaching about sexuality and gender in K-3 last year, and authorized only age "appropriate" lessons in higher grades. Now...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Was Anne Frank bisexual? Graphic novel -- with breasts! -- is out of school library
The Diary of Anne Frank remains in the Vero Beach High School library, but the Florida school has removed a retelling of the story, Anne...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 27, 20222 min read
It's just kiddie sex, not pedophilia, so no worries
Jonathan Evison's Lawn Boy, doesn't belong in school libraries, say angry parents, because the graphic novel depicts an adult man having...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20222 min read
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,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 21, 20222 min read
'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....
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20222 min read
'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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20223 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20223 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 3, 20222 min read
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...
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