Joanne Jacobs
Missing persons: Will absentees show up this year?
Chronic absenteeism -- missing 18+ days of a 180-day school year -- is way up, writes Ed Navigator's Tim Daly. Twenty-five percent of...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Math disaster in college: Would-be STEM majors can't add 1/2 + 1/3
After a year of remote algebra, Diego Fonseca struggled with advanced algebra. Despite a week at George Mason University's Math Boot...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 21
- 2 min
DIY schooling leaves home: Microschools, co-ops, hybrids, pods ...
When schools went remote, many parents took charge of their children's education, and learned how to find online and community resources,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 15
- 1 min
UK blames lenient pandemic grading for soaring college dropout rate
Earning A-levels was easier for British students during the pandemic. Passing college classes is harder. Worried by a 30 percent college...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 26
- 2 min
Trouble with teachers: Why there's no post-Covid rebound
A crisis in classroom teaching quality is forcing school systems to "abandon once-ambitious student recovery plans," concludes a report...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Education's 'long Covid' -- students aren't catching up
Don't call it "learning loss," they said. It's just "unfinished learning." Kids will catch up quickly. They'll be fine. First through...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Less schooling, less learning
“The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned,” concludes Harry Anthony Patrinos, an education economist for the World...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Still disrupted: Students are missing a lot of school
Schools haven't returned to normal reports Alia Wong for USA Today. An alarming number of students are "missing vast stretches of their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Should I go to college? Class of '23 worries about costs, feels less prepared
The Class of '23 missed the last part of ninth grade, and many missed chunks of 10th and 11th grade as well. Forty-two percent say...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Teens don't want to work, drive, have sex with a real-life person
Not long ago, teen-age boys dreamed of buying a car and "roaring away from school during lunch period, with a girl riding shotgun, on our...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 20
- 2 min
Many students need tutoring, but few are getting it
Intensive tutoring is the best way to help students who suffered learning setbacks during the pandemic, but school districts are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Dropout rate is up: Disrupted teens gave up on school
The high school dropout rate is up, reports Julian Shen-Berro on Chalkbeat. Students who fell behind when classes went virtual feel...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Science says: Masking didn't help stop Covid spread
The value of masking during the pandemic was "approximately zero," according to a Cochrane review of high-quality research, reports John...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Middle-school math is a disaster
Disrupted learning's effect on middle-school math skills is worse than you think, writes David Wakelyn on The 74. "As many as 1 million...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 4, 2022
- 2 min
Home alone
Americans are socializing a lot less, staying home alone a lot more, writes economist Bryce Ward in the Washington Post. That's true for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Teachers were more anxious about Covid than health-care workers
Teachers were more anxious than health care workers -- or anyone else -- during the first year of the pandemic, according to a newly...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Some like it virtual: Will online students learn less?
Enrollment is climbing in virtual schools, even as pandemic fears wane, reports Asher Lehrer-Small on The 74. Online schools saw an...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
'Parents feel greater ownership in their child's education'
Post-pandemic parents want to don't want to leave their children's education to the local school system, concludes a survey released Oct....
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
When teachers believe, students achieve
"All students can learn" was the school district's slogan, printed on the stationery back in the era when mission statements were new....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Teacher: Students can cut class, skip assignments and pass
Giving students a minimum of 50 percent on assignments -- regardless of whether they're turned in -- was a disaster, a former D.C. public...
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