Joanne Jacobs
Broken PROMISE
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 12, 2018
- 3 min
De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 7, 2018
- 1 min
Reaching out to every child
Teachers chart their relationships with students at a high-poverty North Carolina school, reports Lisa Philip on WUNC. Pattillo Middle...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 27, 2018
- 1 min
Closing the gap in Chicago
Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 20, 2018
- 1 min
Grit or gratitude?
Education folks are sick of hearing about grit: It’s the Finland of social-emotional traits. No more nose to the grindstone, writes Olga...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 11, 2018
- 1 min
Teaching kindness
Feelings are part of the curriculum for young children in some New York City schools, reports Richard Schiffman in the New York Times....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10, 2018
- 1 min
Banned: Best friends
Schools should ban best friends, writes psychologist Barbara Greenberg in U.S. News. Besties are “exclusionary.” Restricting exclusive...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 18, 2017
- 1 min
The old is new: Character returns as SEL
U.S. schoolchildren once were told to emulate “Honest” Abe Lincoln and George Washington, who ” could not tell a lie.” Traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 16, 2017
- 2 min
Hope, connection and chaos
Hechinger’s Lillian Mongeau looks at a Washington state high school’s attempt to provide social and academic support for failing...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15, 2017
- 1 min
Cherishing kids for who they are — and could be
“The heart of our job as teachers is to know and honor children’s full selves,” writes Justin Minkel, who teaches first- and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10, 2017
- 2 min
Teaching the old-time virtues
In “Schools Are Still Peddling the Self-Esteem Hoax,” Fordham’s Checker Finn criticizes social and emotional learning as another fad....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 10, 2017
- 1 min
‘Last-chance’ schools
“Last-chance” schools are providing alternatives to troubled students, writes Natalie Gross for the Hechinger Report. Many use...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9, 2017
- 2 min
Homeless — and on track to graduate
A Manhattan charter schools that serves the neediest teens — many of them homeless — is likely to exceed the the city’s overall...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6, 2017
- 2 min
Billionaires, here’s how to fund education
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 21, 2017
- 2 min
Stress can make kids smarter (in some ways)
Unstable parenting, poverty, a violent environment and other “adverse childhood experiences” contribute to “toxic stress” that impairs...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 5, 2017
- 2 min
Social-emotional learning gains, but what is it?
Social-emotional learning is catching on across the country, reports Victoria Clayton in The Atlantic. She defines SEL as “a systematic,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
You are beautiful (like everyone else)
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I can’t see myself at all. Girls can’t check their hair, lipstick, eyeliner or acne concealer in bathrooms at...
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