Joanne JacobsNov 14, 20171 minWhat do parents want? What can schools do?In Pondering Parent 3.0, Mike Goldstein, the founder and former CEO of Match Education in Boston, and former Chief Academic Officer of...
Joanne JacobsNov 14, 20172 minHow parents choose schoolsOne daughter goes to a small, fast-paced STEM-focused school with few arts, language, sports or extracurricular options, Fordham’s Jeff...
Joanne JacobsNov 13, 20172 minWhy I’m not involved in my kid’s schoolJung-ah Choi, a “college faculty member, teaching and writing about social justice, race, and education,” isn’t involved in her son’s...
Joanne JacobsNov 13, 20171 minTeaching Veterans DayWhat So Proudly We Hail has published a Veterans Day curriculum, which includes Mark Twain’s The War Prayer, an Ernie Pyle dispatch,...
Joanne JacobsNov 12, 20171 minVets’ students don’t care about warStudents don’t care about America’s wars, writes Tyler Bonin, a Marine and combat veteran who now teaches history in North Carolina. When...
Joanne JacobsNov 11, 20171 minZen and the art of school dioramasIn the middle of an “Ask Polly” column on dating, Heather Havrilesky unleashed her hatred of “the never-ending scourage of dioramas . . ....