Joanne Jacobs
Out the classroom door, but still teaching
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2022
- 2 min
Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?
While social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
To get special-ed teachers, pay more
Teaching special-needs students is challenging and stressful. Special education teachers are in short supply across the country, and have...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
How To Love Your Students
This author goes more for “tough love” than “the soft bigotry of low expectations”: Teachers love their students. We see the joy they...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1 min
Grade inflation is expanding
Grade inflation is expanding, especially at high schools with affluent students, concludes a Fordham’s newest study, Grade Inflation in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Black boys lack ‘a teacher who looks like me’
Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 4, 2018
- 1 min
Excellent teachers or small classes?
What’s more important: excellent teachers or small class sizes? Singapore’s educational success is based on highly qualified,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 29, 2018
- 1 min
Math licensing test is too hard, say teachers
Does a third-grade teacher need to know high school math? asks Ann Doss Helms in the Charlotte Observer. “Almost 2,400 North Carolina...
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
- Aug 1, 2018
- 1 min
Teachers aren’t fired for teaching badly
Teachers aren’t fired very often — and almost never for teaching badly, write Amy Cummings and Nate Malkus on AEI. Miami University’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 24, 2018
- 2 min
Has inclusion gone too far?
Inclusion — placing students with disabilities in mainstream classes — may not help special-needs students learn, concludes Allison...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 16, 2018
- 2 min
Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 11, 2018
- 1 min
Teachers get (very small) baseball bats
“It is the last resort,” said Millcreek School District Superintendent William Hall, who called the 16-inch bats primarily “symbolic.”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2018
- 1 min
Miami may build schools with teacher housing
Miami-Dade may build apartments for teachers on school property, reports Douglas Hanks in the Miami Herald. A preliminary proposal...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 30, 2018
- 1 min
Teachers wanted: special ed, ESL, math, science
“The number of U.S. teachers has grown by 13 percent in four years, far outpacing the 2 percent rise in student enrollment, writes Debra...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Does your kid’s preschool teacher need a degree?
Should preschool teachers be college graduates? “Our most important teachers” — preschool teachers — are paid the least, writes Jeneen...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 8, 2018
- 2 min
Will robots replace teachers?
Robots will replace teachers by 2027, predicts Anthony Seldon, a British educator. Can teaching be automated? asks Kristin Houser, senior...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 25, 2017
- 1 min
Study: Teacher bonuses raise results
Teacher performance pay is linked to a slightly better math and reading results in a new federal study reports Liana Loewus in Education...
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