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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
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NYU fires tough chem prof, raises complainers' grades
Would-be doctors have to get through organic chemistry, a tough class that can be a dream killer. When NYU pre-meds earned poor grades...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20223 min read
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Is 'equity' the enemy of excellence?
The "exodus of families from traditional public-school districts is a warning message," writes Jessica Levin on EdPost. Focusing...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 4, 20223 min read
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Once they can decode, the next step is knowledge
The mainstream media has declared a victor in the "reading wars," writes Robert Pondiscio. Both TIME and The New Yorker had stories last...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 23, 20222 min read
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If the students don't care ...
Desperately trying to get failing students to a diploma, counselors are putting kids who can't pass Integrated Math 1 (ninth grade) into...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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'Why would you teach a disadvantaged child that the world hates them'
After flirting with Marxism at Oxford, Katharine Birbalsingh began teaching in a state school with a "holistic, child-centered approach,"...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 16, 20222 min read
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Teach the children well -- without wasting time on hokum
Mixing wishful thinking with actual teaching is failing children, writes Greg Ashman, a school principal in Australia, on Filling the...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 14, 20222 min read
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Why Americans don't trust schools to teach history
"Americans are losing faith in the ability of public schools to teach controversial issues, writes Natalie Wexler. One person's "hard...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 12, 20223 min read
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Tutoring is free, but few NH families sign up
New Hampshire is giving parents $1,000 per student to pay for tutoring, but not many have signed up for the Yes, Every Student...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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What does 'we' mean?
Jay Wamsted, who is White, teaches math in an Atlanta middle school where most students are Black. Last year, before Georgia passed a law...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 2, 20221 min read
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'The child is not the creature of the state'
Parents aren't perfect. Some are very imperfect indeed. But they have the right to "direct the upbringing and education" of their...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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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
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When grades don't match test scores, who do you trust?
New York's graduation rate shot up during the pandemic when Regents exams were on hold, writes Alina Adams on The 74. What will happen...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 22, 20222 min read
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Thank you, Ms. Lung
Born in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan, Jamil Jan Kochai started second grade in Sacramento speaking Pashto and Farsi, but very...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 21, 20222 min read
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Why she quit
After 10 mostly good years of teaching kindergarten in North Carolina, Natalie Parmenter quit her job, she writes on EdSurge. When her...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 21, 20221 min read
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Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'
When schools closed in 2020, support for schools remained strong, but the public's faith in the quality of their local schools has...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20222 min read
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Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High?
Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High School? Replacing baby-boomer teachers was a challenge even before the COVID-19 pandemic.,...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 9, 20222 min read
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'If things get hard, they just quit'
After three years of pandemic-disrupted schooling, students just don't care any more, complains a teacher on Chalkbeat's After the Bell...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20222 min read
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Administrators return to teaching to fill shortages
Teacher shortages are worse than ever this year, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post. "Pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion"...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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Can teachers make 'differentiation' work -- and not go crazy?
In my newspaper days, I talked to principals at elementary schools with above-average reading and math scores and a significant...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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