Joanne Jacobs
Instead of ‘gifted and talented’ …
It’s time to drop the “gifted and talented” label and use personalized, mastery learning to challenge all students, argues Michael Horn....
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 25, 2018
- 2 min
‘Doing it wrong’
In We’re Doing It Wrong, David Michael Slater goes after 25 bad education ideas and provides his alternatives. A middle-school English...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 14, 2018
- 1 min
We know what works, but don’t do it
“Direct Instruction is the Rodney Dangerfield of education,” writes Fordham’s Robert Pondiscio. Despite 50 years of research showing its...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 28, 2018
- 1 min
Easy-pass policy fails students
In last week’s post on “grading floors,” Memphis teachers debated whether giving minimum grades for minimal achievement motivates failing...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 5, 2017
- 1 min
Not a gang school any more
Enrollment is soaring at Benito Juarez Community Academy. Photo: Amadou Diallo/Hechinger Report Choice has emptied many low-performing...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 21, 2017
- 2 min
Computers enable mastery learning
Mastery learning — enabled by technology — is gaining popularity, reports Kyle Spencer in the New York Times Moheeb Kaied, a seventh...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 18, 2017
- 2 min
College of competence: How WGU works
Western Governors University, a national nonprofit, has been providing online, self-paced competency-based education to career-minded...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 18, 2017
- 2 min
Pass ’em along — or mastery learning?
Teachers can raise graduation rates — and their own performance ratings — by giving D’s instead of F’s to poorly prepared students,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 15, 2017
- 2 min
Grade-free transcripts help prep-school kids
High school grades are rising, even as SAT scores remain flat, reports the College Board. In 2013, the average 12th grader earned a 2.90...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 26, 2017
- 1 min
Dumping the D-: What mastery learning looks like
Windsor Locks students master a set of skills to pass courses. In Windsor Locks, Connecticut, “24 credits and a D-minus average” aren’t...
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