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What is the right balance between ingredients and cake?
What's the right balance between teaching knowledge and teaching skills? That's the wrong question, writes Daisy Christodoulou on No More...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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To help left-behind students, get 'butts in seats'
You can't win if you don't play. The only way to improve student achievement is to "get butts in seats," writes Jessica Grose in the New...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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Easy come, easy go: Googling is bad for learning
Students don't need to learn facts, educators have been saying since the Cro-Magnon first learned to search the Internet. "They can just...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 12, 20232 min read
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AI can be a teaching and learning tool -- or a crutch
Bots powered by artificial intelligence are getting smarter and smarter. Will people get dumb and dumber? Rick Hess of the American...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20233 min read
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Students give their schools a B-
The good news is that two-thirds of students give their schools an A or B grade in a Gallup/Walton survey of students in grades 5 to 12....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20231 min read
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Roblox goes to school: Plan a Mars mission or join the Pathogen Patrol
Roblox is going to school, reports Benjamin Herold in Education Week. The popular gaming platform is adding immersive online “learning...

Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20232 min read
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AI can be an equalizer
Educators can personalize teaching and equalize education opportunities, if they learn how to use artificial intelligence intelligently,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20232 min read
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Students learn more from tough graders
Students learn more when their teachers have high expectations, concludes a study in North Carolina, reports Kevin Mahnken. Algebra...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20231 min read
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Mediocrity for all isn't equity
In Culver City (CA), ninth- and tenth-grade honors classes were eliminated, reports Sara Randazzo in the Wall Street Journal. Officials...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Learning is hard
Learning is hard, Dan Willingham tells Laura McKenna. It takes effort. But motivated students can learn effective learning and study...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 19, 20232 min read
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Teacher: Students are learning they don't need to show up or do the work
No-consequences attendance policies have encouraged students to skip class, teacher Loren Green told the Albany, New York school board....

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20232 min read
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College is 'worth it' for those who want to learn -- which isn't everyone
Students' desire to learn is the key to college success, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches writing at the University of Texas at...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20232 min read
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Back to handwriting?
I don't write much by hand these days, and when I do it's a chore. Even writing a few lines on Christmas cards seems like hard work....

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20232 min read
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