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
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Anti-merit push is alienating Asian voters
Democrats are losing Asian-American voters, writes Ruy Teixeira on Liberal Patriot. Asians, like Hispanics, are not radicals, he writes....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 15
- 1 min
'Parents can't solve a problem they don't know they have'
Many parents don't realize how badly their children are doing in school, reports AP's Bianca Vazquez Toness. Teachers don't like to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 11
- 1 min
What parents worry about
Depression and anxiety are the top worries of parents, according to a Pew Research Center survey, report Rachel Minkin and Juliana...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 24
- 1 min
54% of parents are considering a new school for their kids
A majority of parents are considering a new school, according to a new survey by the School Choice Awareness Foundation. Two-thirds say...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Why parents fear social media
Parents' concerns about their teenagers' social media use focuses on access to explicit sexual content and time wasting, writes Risa...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
A longer school year? Some parents aren't interested
Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras wanted to lengthen the school year to give students more time to catch up, reports AP's Bianca...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 1, 2022
- 1 min
Can Jayden read?
Parents are positive thinkers: 92 percent say their kids are doing reading and math at grade level, even after the pandemic, according to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
Gone girls and boys
District-run public schools lost nine percent of enrollment between spring 2021 and spring 2022, concludes School Disrupted by Tyton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
NEA: 'Educators love their students' and know best what they need
The National Education Association's claim that educators "love" their students and know what's best for them is getting a lot of push...
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
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
Tell parents truth: Enough with the happy talk
Tell parents the unpleasant truth about learning loss, writes Andrew Rotherham in a story on the state NAEP scores in the The 74. "The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 21, 2022
- 2 min
'Red wave' includes frustrated parents
Education is an "iceberg" that will sink Democrats' chances in the midterms, argues Hugh Hewitt in a Washington Post commentary....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
'Protect our kids from graphic porn' in the school library
Parents who object to sexually explicit books in school libraries have been labeled "book banners," writes Max Eden, a research fellow at...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
Public schools are losing white, middle-class students
Urban school districts are losing students, writes Matt Welch, a public school parent in New York City, in Reason. White, middle-class...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
Who decides what books belong in the school library? Can we talk about it?
You probably can't find Hustler in the school library -- or Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal, write Jay Greene and Robert Pondiscio in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
Conservatives focus on school board races
California Republicans are focusing on running candidates for school board seats, reports Sameea Kamal in CalMatters. The GOP's “Parent...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Public trusts teachers, but not so much on racism or gender
Sixty-three percent of people trust local public-school teachers according to a new poll by PDK, an educators' group, reports Libby...
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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