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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 10, 20241 min read
Demand is high for skilled trades classes
Seventy percent of Los Angeles County students said they'd consider taking a skilled trades class, if their high school offered the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 10, 20242 min read
College or Chipotle? High school graduates need more choices
America invests more than $500 billion of taxpayer money in colleges each year, writes Ryan Craig, in an Education Next forum. That...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 14, 20232 min read
KIPP schools are game changers
KIPP charters are game changers, concludes a new Mathematica study. Compared to similar students who applied to KIPP but lost the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20232 min read
Love, marriage, honor roll: Culture closes 'excellence gaps'
Culture explains why Asian-American students do so well in school, writes Helen Raleigh, who's Asian American, in The Federalist. It's...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Apprenticeship-to-degree model launches debt-free careers
How do you get a job at Goldman Sachs? In the U.S., it usually takes a degree from an elite college to get in the door. In Britain,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 9, 20233 min read
Talking 'bout 'oracy'
Teaching students to speak well would "break the class ceiling," said Sir Keir Starmer, the British Labour leader and would-be prime...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20231 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Funding follows students to religious school, if that's parents' choice
Empowered with a $7,000-per-child "backpack of cash," Arizona parents can choose an educational program -- including a religious private...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 9, 20221 min read
'Be all you can be' works for black soldiers
Enlisting in the Army raises earnings for blacks, writes Jeff Murray, citing a new study. Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era by West...
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