Joanne Jacobs
‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
No learning loss in Sweden
Photo: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels In Sweden, which kept schools open throughout the pandemic, first- through third-graders made normal...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
More Michigan 3rd graders fail reading test
Third graders who are a year behind in reading are supposed to repeat the grade under Michigan’s “read by grade three” law, but few are...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
School board loses focus on academics
Shanthi Gonzales “Schools aren’t meeting students’ needs” in Oakland, California, writes Shanthi Gonzales, who’s resigning from the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Dean, you didn’t prepare me to teach reading
“Schools aren’t teaching reading in ways that line up with the science,” concludes American Public Media’s Emily Hanford in Hard Words....
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 24, 2018
- 2 min
Michigan 3rd graders must ‘read or flunk’
Justin Jennings went to Purdue with a basketball scholarship — and third-grade reading skills, he recalls. With intensive tutoring help,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
If schooling was as important as football
Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 3, 2018
- 2 min
New teen fiction genre: School shootings
Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 22, 2018
- 2 min
Digital readers crave excitment
She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 21, 2018
- 2 min
For teens, texting crowds out books, TV
For today’s teens, “time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV,” concludes Jean Twenge, author of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 19, 2018
- 2 min
Teachers may not know how kids learn to read
How do children learn to read? Most states don’t require new elementary and special-education teachers to show they understand the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 2, 2018
- 1 min
Coaching works for teachers
Personalized training for teachers is effective, write Matthew A. Kraft and David Blazar in Education Next, but taking coaching to scale...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 28, 2018
- 1 min
Build a book: Crafting ‘Treasure Island’
Microsoft, is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft, the wildly popular world-building game. The latest idea, Litcraft, lets kids build models...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25, 2018
- 2 min
How Core kids learn reading, writing
Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 22, 2018
- 1 min
Summer reading
My husband’s grandson is turning 3. Mom and Dad requested a gift of Newtonian Physics for Babies. Here are some other ideas:...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2018
- 1 min
Are test scores irrelevant?
Students defended their Providence, Rhode Island middle school in a panel discussion sponsored by Generation Citizen, reports the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 10, 2018
- 2 min
Nation’s report card shows ‘lost decade’
Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 15, 2018
- 2 min
Parents of dyslexics: Teach phonics
Parents of children with dyslexia forced their school district to teach phonics, reports Emily Hanford on NPR. Upper Arlington, Ohio...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 14, 2018
- 2 min
Bilingual ed for black English?
Remember Ebonics? Worried about black students’ reading skills, Oakland’s school board declared black English to be a separate,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 30, 2017
- 1 min
To teach reading, teach history, science …
Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New...
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