Joanne Jacobs
Equity and excellence
New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 31, 2018
- 2 min
22% of Pomona students are ‘disabled’
classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
Are test scores irrelevant?
Students defended their Providence, Rhode Island middle school in a panel discussion sponsored by Generation Citizen, reports the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 15, 2018
- 2 min
How to motivate students
Many believe “extrinsic” motivators, such as incentives, “decrease student effort by eroding students’ intrinsic desire to learn,” they...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 1, 2018
- 2 min
Test-optional students are as likely to graduate
At colleges that don’t require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, students admitted on grades alone are just as likely to graduate...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 15, 2018
- 2 min
We’re teaching reading wrong
We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 10, 2018
- 2 min
Nation’s report card shows ‘lost decade’
Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
Test scores matter
Test scores matter, writes Erika Sanzi on Good School Hunting. In deciding where to build its second headquarters (HQ2), Amazon is...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 28, 2018
- 2 min
Teachers debate: Should students get retakes?
Baptiste Delvallé doesn’t let students retake quizzes and tests, he writes in Education Week. Here’s how I explain it to my students. If...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 27, 2018
- 1 min
Test scores don’t predict life outcomes
How do we measure a school’s success? School of choice that raise reading and math scores don’t always improve later outcomes, such as...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 28, 2018
- 2 min
SAT/ACT may replace state test in California
California may let schools replace 11th-grade Smarter Balanced tests with the SAT or ACT, reports CALmatters’ Felicia Mello. That might...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 27, 2018
- 2 min
What’s proficient? It’s every state for itself
Once upon a time, 45 states adopted Common Core standards and exams — either the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 12, 2018
- 1 min
Who’s college ready? Let’s find out
States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2018
- 1 min
To get to equity, teach ’em to read
Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 23, 2018
- 2 min
Test-optional is not an equalizer
Test-optional college admissions tilts the playing field just a little bit more, writes Kelly Ochs Rosinger, a Penn education professor,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 19, 2018
- 1 min
Help wanted: Need master’s in janitorial science
sheepskin effect” requires a master’s degree. “If trends continue, by 2025 we will be offering master’s degrees in janitorial science.”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 28, 2017
- 2 min
Remediation called ‘segregation machine’
Community college placement tests create a “segregation machine,” pushing Latinos and blacks to dead-end remedial courses, a professor...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 28, 2017
- 2 min
Atlanta’s cheated students
Ten years later after the Atlanta cheating scandal broke, “educators continue to fight to clear their names and the district attempts to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 27, 2017
- 1 min
Testing empowers parents
Testing enables social justice, argues Keri Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Massachusetts Parents United in CommonWealth Magazine. Minority...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 25, 2017
- 1 min
Study: Teacher bonuses raise results
Teacher performance pay is linked to a slightly better math and reading results in a new federal study reports Liana Loewus in Education...
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