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Know-nothings: It's hard to think in a vacuum
If students don't learn facts, they won't be able to understand what they read or think deeply or critically.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 82 min read
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Why Johnny can't do math
"Experts" tell teachers that students don't need to memorizes math facts, setting them up for failure.

Joanne Jacobs
May 302 min read
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Anxious about math? Learn your times tables and it won't seem so scary
Memorizing times tables has returned to Virginia's Standards of Learning, after a six-year exile, writes Todd Truitt. But he fears...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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Algebra wins big in San Francisco -- but will kids learn times tables?
San Francisco schools should offer algebra in eighth grade, said 84 percent of voters in Tuesday's election. It was a stunning rejection...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 7, 20242 min read
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