Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 18, 2018
- 1 min
Where do you really live?
Kicked Out shows how districts in the Philadelphia suburbs keep out non-district students. In one segment of the series, WHYY reporter...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
Principal pays kids not to fight
At a high-poverty, low-performing K-8 school in Philadelphia, eighth graders don’t get into fights any more. Their principal promised...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 21, 2018
- 2 min
Reforming school discipline: Too fast?
Is school discipline reform moving too fast? asks Wayne D’Orio in The Atlantic. In the Highline district south of Seattle, suspensions...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 10, 2017
- 2 min
New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 13, 2017
- 2 min
Backpack full of mishmash
Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 9, 2017
- 1 min
Boys to educated men
Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min
Anti-choice folks choose for their own kids
People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...
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