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‘I’m sending my kids to screen-free schools’
Photo: Natureaddict/Pixabay Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist. As a teacher,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 6, 20221 min read
Paper and Pencil
K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes. Too many students are allowed...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20202 min read
Protecting Student Civil Rights During the Coronavirus Shutdowns
From the US Department of Education: Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — The Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20202 min read


Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 30, 20181 min read
GenZ prefer YouTube videos to books
Generation Z — aka post-Millenials –prefers learning from YouTube and videos rather than printed books, reports Lauraine Genota in Ed...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 30, 20182 min read


Starting a school — slowly
In a New Orleans charter high’s first year, students beat the state school performance average, writes Matt Candler, a board member, on...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 9, 20181 min read


Digital readers crave excitment
She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 22, 20182 min read


Look lively: Big Brother is watching
A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22, 20182 min read


New schools end up like old schools
High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 2, 20182 min read


A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20183 min read


Tech that monitor kids’ feelings: Creepy or … ?
technology to monitor students’ feelings is sparking privacy concerns, reports Benjamin Herold on Education Week. No kidding. All school...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 20, 20182 min read


Not so smart no more
IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20181 min read
The Incredibles are back
Incredibles 2 is a winner, writes Tyler O’Neil on PJ Media. The family of superheroes works together to defeat Screenslaver, who “uses...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 20181 min read


Middle school to manufacturing
Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning math, science and programming — and competing in contests such as MakerMinded to expose them to...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20182 min read


45% of teens are online nearly all the time
Forty-five percent of teens say they’re online nearly all the time, reports Pew Research Center. Ninety-five percent own or have access...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20181 min read


Alexa, teach my son to be polite
Nobody says “please” or “thank you” to Alexa, writes Ken Gordon in The Atlantic. He worries that the ability to command a digital...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 29, 20181 min read


The little laptop that couldn’t
In 2005, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) promised to deliver rugged $100 laptops to poor children around the world, linking them to the...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22, 20182 min read
VR is powerful — is it dangerous for kids?
Virtual reality technology, which creates an interactive, immersive experience, is “arguably the most powerful medium in history,” writes...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 21, 20182 min read


Connected, dependent — and distracted
Fortnite Mobile, a trendy free game, is distracting students and overloading schools’ wifi, reports Patricia Hernandez on Kotaku....

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 8, 20182 min read


Udacity ends nanodegree job guarantee
Udacity has ended its get-a-job-or-your-money-back guarantee for its Nanodegree Plus program, reports Lindsay McKenzie at Inside Higher...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 22, 20182 min read
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