Joanne Jacobs
‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
CA school officials must report threats — or not
Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 9, 2022
- 1 min
Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
‘Rigor’ is a Potemkin village
High school rigor is often a facade, writes Natalie Wexler on Forbes. It’s a “Potemkin village.” High school graduates in the class of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min
Postsecondary Math Education
Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh. It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
Elite colleges drop SAT, ACT essay test
The ability to write cogently, quickly and under pressure, helped me get into and through college. However, a growing list of selective...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2018
- 2 min
One track for math: Is equity unfair?
Nobody takes algebra in eighth grade in San Francisco’s district schools any more, reports Ed Week‘s Stephen Sawchuk. In the name of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 18, 2018
- 2 min
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...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
Bootstrapping is harder in U.S.
Our competitors do a better job of enabling students to gain more education than their parents, she writes. Once, public education was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 26, 2018
- 1 min
Disabled kids need well-off parents
Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...
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
- Dec 13, 2017
- 2 min
Open doors to accelerated classes
Open the doors to advanced classes to a wide range of students, argues AP social studies teacher Nate Bowling on EdWeek...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 20, 2017
- 1 min
‘Teach Us All’ troubles activists
Teach Us All, a documentary on school integration, “troubles some activists,” writes Chalkbeat’s Christina Veiga. The movie highlights...
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
- Oct 9, 2017
- 2 min
Scores slip after ‘equity’ focus
“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in 2013. Test scores are falling,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 12, 2017
- 2 min
AP for all: Who benefits?
Expanding access to AP classes is supposed to help disadvantaged students prepare for college, but pass rates are very low. Is expanding...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 22, 2017
- 2 min
‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 12, 2017
- 1 min
PISA’s best of the best
PISA4U, a “collaborative learning program for teachers and schools,” hopes to help schools improve. BASIS Schools, a national charter...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 28, 2017
- 1 min
Stress tested
Tested a documentary about New York City eighth graders trying to qualify for elite public schools, will come out on DVD next month....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 6, 2017
- 1 min
U.S. schools get a slacker’s C
U.S. schools have a C average on Education Week‘s Quality Counts Report Card. There’s little change from last year in most categories....
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