Joanne Jacobs
Help boys aspire to 'heroic masculinity'
Boys need to know that masculinity isn't "toxic," writes Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic. They can aspire to "heroic masculinity,"...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed
Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives. Is transgender policy the hill...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Florida Atlantic wins upward mobility tournament
Florida Atlantic University beat Memphis in the closing seconds of the first game of the NCAA tournament, and play Farleigh Dickinson...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Youth sports are supposed to be fun
Sports should be fun for kids, writes Linda Flanagan. Instead, young athletes give up their childhood to compete for college scholarships...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Move it and lose the blues
Exercise and sports -- at least one hour three times a week -- are a natural anti-depressant for teenagers, according to an analysis of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
Child's play is learning
Playing -- especially child-directed play outside with friends -- is how kids learn, writes Jackie Mader on the Hechinger Report. Playing...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 1, 2022
- 2 min
Girls want to compete -- and win -- but it's hard to beat trans athletes
It's unfair to let biological males compete in girls' track and field events, whatever their gender identity, argued four female...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Biology denial: Girls can't win if sports go coed
I was forced to take four years of P.E. in high school in the late '60s. Illinois' gym teachers had a great lobby. Only three years of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 14, 2022
- 1 min
Girls just wanna play football
Girls are playing tackle football, reports Cathy Free in the Washington Post. Naliyah Rueckert joined a full-contact tackle football team...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 2, 2022
- 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
- Apr 23, 2022
- 1 min
Students lose interest in sports
Photo: Aspen Institute Project Play Sofia Velasquez, 15, enjoys playing soccer for her Chicago high school, but games keep getting...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
If schooling was as important as football
Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2018
- 2 min
Learning to hate exercise in P.E. class
I walk every day, do weight training two to three days a week and go to a weekly Zumba class. In the summer, I swim every day. If my...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 8, 2018
- 1 min
Trophies are for winners
Trophies are for winners, a Maryland youth baseball league has decided. “For years, Reisterstown Baseball has given trophies to its...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 23, 2018
- 1 min
Outing Club can’t go outside: It’s not safe
Penn State students have organized and led wilderness trips for 98 years. Penn State’s Outing Club can’t go outside any more, reports Don...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 10, 2018
- 2 min
Youth football takes more hits
California, Illinois and New York legislators are considering banning children from playing tackle football because of the risks of brain...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 1, 2017
- 1 min
Swim Team
Swim Team, a documentary, about three young men with autism who compete as the Jersey Hammerheads, will premiere on PBS’ POV tomorrow...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2017
- 1 min
‘Step’ inspires
Step, a new documentary on the “Lethal Ladies” of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, is getting rave reviews. As the girls...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 7, 2017
- 1 min
What Is The Proper Response To This?
The University of North Carolina may have covered itself in glory “on the fields of friendly strife”, but at what cost to education and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 2, 2017
- 2 min
Utah girls demand their own football teams
If high schools fund a boys’ football team, they should fund a girls’ football team, claims a Title IX lawsuit by parents of six Utah...
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