#College

Joanne Jacobs

Trying is not the same as achieving

Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...

Joanne Jacobs

They grow up not so fast

#College #maturity #overparenting

Joanne Jacobs

You got into college. Now what?

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has good advice on how to get the most out of college. Hanging with people from the same background...

Joanne Jacobs

New Orleans improves — a lot

“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...

Joanne Jacobs

College with autism: What helps

Students on the autism spectrum may do well in high school, but fail in college, writes Brendan Borrell on Spectrum. Some colleges now...

Joanne Jacobs

Tide turns on Title IX investigations

Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have “codified the Obama-era Education Department’s guidance for how...

Joanne Jacobs

I mentor

I’ve signed up to mentor an 11th grader — for the next three years — via iMentor, which is looking for mentors in San Jose, Oakland,...

Joanne Jacobs

College writing center: Grammar is racist

Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...

Joanne Jacobs

Walk on the bewildering side

College should be where things “get more complicated, not less,” writes Lyell Asher, a Lewis & Clark English professor, in The American...