Joanne Jacobs
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...
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min
Nation's Report Card shows 'appalling' fall in math, reading
Fourth- and eighth-graders' math and reading proficiency fell across the country after two years of disruption, reports the National...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26, 2022
- 2 min
Parents want choices
Parents want education options, concludes Never Going Back, based on a Mary 22 Harris Poll for the National Alliance for Public Charter...
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