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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 33 min read
Getting better: How Louisiana is raising reading and math scores
How Louisiana is raising reading scores and hoping to improve math achievement.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 301 min read
Schools need to get more brains for the bucks
School spending soared in the last 10 years as test scores fell -- except in states such as Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20242 min read
Teachers don't have time to be therapists, cops, nurses and social workers
“Students who are habitually ungovernable should be removed from teachers’ classrooms so teachers can actually teach and students can...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20241 min read
Thou shalt not establish a state religion
Louisiana's law requiring public schools and universities to post the Ten Commandments is unlikely to be deemed constitutional.
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Joanne Jacobs
May 23, 20231 min read
Test reading and civics at the same time
Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 2, 20222 min read
Louisiana eyes requiring summer school for struggling readers
Louisiana students not reading at grade level in K-4 would be required to attend summer school -- or repeat a grade -- under a proposal...
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