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Focus on teaching kids to read -- not fixing 'root causes'
We're not going to fix urban schools by fixing "root causes" of poverty. But we could teach reading effectively.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 273 min read


Honey, we lost the parents
Democrats have lost their edge with parents of school-aged children.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20242 min read


How to lose: Parents don't want kids to see blowjobs in library books
"A lot of Americans have kids in public schools," writes Eduwonk Andrew Rotherham. " They want normal ." They don't want sexualized...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 8, 20242 min read
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