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Unmet needs or unformed character?
Bad behavior can signal an "unmet need" for an adult to teach self-control.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 302 min read


Social-emotional learning is now 'character ed' or 'life skills' or ...
School leaders are rebranding "social-emotional learning" as "character education" or other less controversial names, but teaching the same lessons.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 4, 20252 min read


Classical ed -- seen as 'a white child's education' -- is thriving in the Bronx
Are the liberal arts conservative?, asks Emma Green in a New Yorker story about the revival of "classical education." A growing number of...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20242 min read


What books are best for children?
Which books should kids be reading, asks Robert Pondiscio. He talked to Casey Churchill, who runs Liberty Common School, a Colorado Core...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 4, 20232 min read
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