Joanne Jacobs
Once, girls were excited to grow up
Once upon a time, the teenage girls in Judy Blume's stories were "excited to grow up," writes Kat Rosenfield on The Free Press. Starting...
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Joanne Jacobs
- May 20
- 2 min
If kids don't do much reading, they won't get good at it
Perhaps college students can't read long or complex texts because they didn't read many books in middle and high school, suggests...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23
- 1 min
Poet X replaces Romeo: Why high school students can't read
Adam Kotsko, who teaches humanities at a small liberal arts college, finds that even his best students are unprepared to read and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
To kill 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Ninth-graders aren't reading To Kill a Mockingbird this year in Mukilteo, Washington, an affluent, mostly white town north of Seattle. ...
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