Joanne Jacobs
Lost in a special-ed maze
Special education is failing children in New York City, reports Elizabeth A. Harris in the New York Times. When “T.J.” was two, his...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min
White liberals choose separate, unequal schools
White liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 17, 2018
- 2 min
White girl plays racist in school play
Anastasia Bertram, 7, one of the only white students at her Georgia elementary school, was cast as a segregationist in the school play,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
All-minority charters: Is it segregation?
At 25 percent of urban charter schools, 99 percent of students are non-white, reports AP. That compares to 10 percent of traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 25, 2017
- 2 min
Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 9, 2017
- 2 min
Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
“Segregating” refugees may help them integrate, suggests the Hechinger Report’s Meredith Kolodner. Bowling Green, Kentucky has opened a...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
Well-off liberals choose mostly white schools
Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 29, 2017
- 1 min
Parenting as a competitive sport
In Lucinda Rosenfeld’s Class, which satirizes privileged, perfectionist Brooklynites, “parent is both a verb and a competitive sport,”...
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