Joanne JacobsJan 302 minPsych out: Why are we teaching kids to be hopeless and helpless?"Anti-racists" are demoralizing black students, write Julian Adorney and Jake Mackey on Quillette. Teenage depression and suicide rates...
Joanne JacobsJan 32 minLA celebrates 'blackness' while black students fail in reading, mathBlack students are "disastrously behind" in math, reading and attendance in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), writes Heather...
Joanne JacobsDec 29, 20232 minCulturally relevant math: If Cardi B owns $500K in handbags ...Math achievement is very low for black students. Can "culturally relevant" math problems -- such as analyzing a hip-hop star's purse...
Joanne JacobsNov 29, 20232 minAnti-racist math: 2 + 2 = whitenessApples and oranges featured heavily in my elementary school math curriculum, and yet I knew math was about the numbers, not about the...