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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
Oct 5, 20221 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20223 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 3, 20222 min read


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
Aug 26, 20221 min read


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
Jul 15, 20222 min read


‘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 14, 20221 min read
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 13, 20221 min read


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, 20221 min read


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 4, 20223 min read


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
Jun 2, 20222 min read


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
Jul 6, 20181 min read


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 23, 20182 min read
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
Jun 12, 20181 min read


. . . 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...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 6, 20182 min read


Swedish preschools teach boys to dance, girls to yell
Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 31, 20182 min read


Parents seek right to know about bullying
Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20181 min read


3% of teens are trans? Not really
Some 2.7 percent of teens identified themselves as transgender or “gender non-conforming” (TGNC) in a study of Minnesota teenagers in...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 9, 20182 min read


27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20182 min read


Who’s gay? Textbooks must say
Was Emily Dickinson gay? How about Ralph Waldo Emerson? The California Board of Education has rejected two proposed middle-school...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20172 min read
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