Joanne Jacobs
Whites vs. Asians in college admissions
Preferences for the children of wealthy donors — mostly white — are keeping high-scoring Asian-Americans out of elite private colleges,...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 22, 2017
- 2 min
‘Civil rights’ roll back? Or common sense?
The Trump administration is rolling back civil rights efforts, according to ProPublica. A leaked memo reveals that the Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 16, 2017
- 2 min
P-TECH grows, but is it working?
IBM is scaling up the wildly popular P-TECH model,reports Jenny Abamu on EdSurge. But the original Brooklyn school is struggling to raise...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2017
- 2 min
Trump cuts failed education programs
President Trump’s proposed education budget — called “devastating,” a “wrecking ball” and an “assault on the American Dream” —...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 6, 2017
- 1 min
Trump backs choice, but what’s the plan?
President Trump wants to spend $20 billion on school choice for “disadvantaged youth.” Families “should be free to choose the public,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 28, 2017
- 1 min
Trump: Black colleges are a priority
President Trump met with black college leaders yesterday. Today, he signed an executive order pledging support and moving the Initiative...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
Trump drops transgender bathroom rule
President Trump has rescinded a federal guideline requiring schools to let transgender students use bathrooms corresponding with their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2017
- 1 min
Trump-twitting homework is __________
A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 27, 2017
- 1 min
Teacher posts ‘shooting’ Trump video
“A high school art teacher in Dallas posted an Instagram video of herself ‘shooting’ an image of Donald Trump with a squirt gun and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 25, 2017
- 2 min
DeVos, Darth and DeVil
News coverage about Betsy DeVos has been lousy, writes Alexander Russo in The Grade, now on the Kappan site. Instead of giving readers a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 20, 2017
- 2 min
Trump’s inauguration: Safe for kids?
“Every peaceful transition of power is a historic moment,” a fourth-grade teacher in Michigan told parents in an email. Brett Meteyer...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 17, 2017
- 1 min
Teachers protest discipline reform
Under pressure to reduce racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions, schools are turning to “restorative justice” programs that...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10, 2017
- 2 min
Who is Betsy DeVos? What will she do?
On the eve of confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 5, 2017
- 1 min
DeVos: Mainstream or monster?
Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, is a “pretty mainstream pick – though usual suspects on right & left of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 3, 2017
- 1 min
NYT gets it wrong on economists and vouchers
Free Market For Education: Economists Generally Don’t Buy It, claims Susan Dynarski, a University of Michigan education professor, in the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 2, 2017
- 1 min
Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
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