Joanne Jacobs
Black male teachers are not security guards
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns....
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 31, 2022
- 2 min
Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read
Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: “What have you done personally or...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Magical thinking on teaching math
We know a lot about how to teach students who have trouble learning math, writes researcher Tom Loveless. Why not use that? Photo:...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Science teachers: Don’t say ‘parent’
Who are these people? Photo: Serrano1004/Pixabay Don’t say “parent,” advises a feature article in the National Science Teaching...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 19, 2022
- 2 min
Teach students to meet deadlines, handle stress
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Teaching kids to share crayons isn’t intrusive
Teaching social and emotional skills — done properly — is an essential part of teaching, argues Fordham intern Nathaniel Grossman. It’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘Computer science for all’ goes beyond coding
I took computer science in high school to meet boys. And I did. Nerdy boys. It was the era of paper-tape readers and punch cards. I...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
Causing discomfort remains legal
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
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
- Jul 17, 2021
- 1 min
You’re not a ‘visual’ (or ‘auditory’) learner
Nearly all teachers believe that students learn best when taught to their preferred learning style, but there’s no evidence that’s true....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 17, 2018
- 2 min
Teach history, not ‘social studies’ units
Periodically, my eighth-grade teacher would fill the blackboard with everything we should “know” for the test. I remember “1777” (battle...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 25, 2018
- 2 min
When high hopes meet low expectations
Most students “meet the demands of their assignments” more than two-thirds of the time, yet demonstrate mastery of grade-level standards...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 22, 2018
- 1 min
‘Sit Down and Shut Up’
On his first day in the classroom, Henderson was cursed and threatened by one of his students. He called a monitor to escort the student...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 20, 2018
- 2 min
Social justicing mathematx
Joy Pullman rants well. In The Federalist, she takes on social justice math. University of Illinois Professor Rochelle Gutierrez, who...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Raising achievement in Atlanta — without cheating
New York Times reporter Sara Mosle looks at an Atlanta principal who’s trying to raise reading and math performance at her high-poverty,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 10, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t let Johnny drive the bus
Putting students in charge of their own learning is a harmful fad, argues Richard Ullman, who has taught high school in New York for 29...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Who will teach? Not my kid
A majority of U.S. parents don’t want their children to become teachers, according to a recent PDK International Poll, reports Kate...
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 30, 2018
- 1 min
Unprepared to learn — or even to try
Credit: ClipartXtras Having failed their way through middle school, students are passed on to high school, writes Darren Miller on Right...
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