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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Teacher: Students are learning they don't need to show up or do the work
No-consequences attendance policies have encouraged students to skip class, teacher Loren Green told the Albany, New York school board....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Unsafe at school
Angry teachers in Newport News, Virginia blame lax discipline for a 6-year-old shooting his first-grade teacher, write Ben Finley and...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 11, 20232 min read
Tolerating misbehavior undercuts learning
A six-year-old boy shot and nearly killed his first-grade teacher at a Newport News, Virginia school last week. The teacher was...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 5, 20232 min read
Akron teachers threaten strike over school safety
"We as educators are being asked to accept more and more violent language, violent assaults, violent behaviors from our students and we...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 6, 20222 min read
A Filipina teacher in Arizona
Desperately short of teachers, Bullhead City, Arizona schools is importing teachers from the Philippines. They've received "outstanding"...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 16, 20222 min read
'Why would you teach a disadvantaged child that the world hates them'
After flirting with Marxism at Oxford, Katharine Birbalsingh began teaching in a state school with a "holistic, child-centered approach,"...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 9, 20222 min read
Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High?
Who wants to teach at Lord of the Flies High School? Replacing baby-boomer teachers was a challenge even before the COVID-19 pandemic.,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Why it's hard to close learning gaps
Student behavioral issues are a major barrier to closing learning gaps, say 67 percent teachers in a Khan Academy survey, reports...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 26, 20221 min read
Why teachers quit
Student misbehavior is a key reason that teachers leave their jobs, writes Chalkboard Review's Tony Kinnett, who surveyed teachers in the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Black male teachers are not security guards
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20221 min read
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20222 min read
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 31, 20191 min read
The School Environment
If it’s a secret to the rest of the world, it’s not a secret to America’s teachers–school discipline is getting worse and worse. In...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 22, 20181 min read
‘Sit Down and Shut Up’
On his first day in the classroom, Henderson was cursed and threatened by one of his students. He called a monitor to escort the student...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20182 min read
Cutting suspensions doesn’t close ‘discipline gap’
California’s out-of-school suspension rate is way down, but the “discipline gap” remains, reports Mario Koran on The 74. Black students...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 16, 20182 min read
Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 16, 20181 min read
Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
Broward County’s PROMISE program, which diverts misbehaving students from the criminal-justice system, didn’t enable a former student...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20182 min read
How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20181 min read
Catholic schools teach self-control
Catholic schools build self-discipline, concludes a Fordham study. Students in Catholic schools were compared to public-school students...
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