Joanne JacobsApr 8, 20182 minConnected, dependent — and distractedFortnite Mobile, a trendy free game, is distracting students and overloading schools’ wifi, reports Patricia Hernandez on Kotaku....
Joanne JacobsApr 8, 20181 minRemembering the class of ’18 at Douglas HighThe New York Times has a touching story about the yearbook staff at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which faced the...
Joanne JacobsApr 7, 20182 min. . . and ‘theyby’ makes threeNew York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...
Joanne JacobsApr 5, 20182 minStudy links DACA to more schooling, fewer birthsThe Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which linked eligibility to schooling, led to a 15 percent increase in high...
Joanne JacobsApr 5, 20182 minWe didn’t choose integration for our kidsAs a second grader, Tanzi West Barbour, a black girl living in a white neighborhood in Fort Worth, was bused to an all-black school as...
Joanne JacobsApr 4, 20181 minWhite liberals choose separate, unequal schoolsWhite liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...