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‘Teachers feel threatened but aren’t backed up’
Gang graffiti on a fence in suburban Long Island, where police blame MS-13 for 30 murders in the last two years. Photo: Sarah...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20182 min read
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Middle school to manufacturing
Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning math, science and programming — and competing in contests such as MakerMinded to expose them to...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20182 min read
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Connecting working-class kids to high-tech futures
Carlos Huerta, an engineering student at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High, works on wheels for a “drop-and-dash” robot for the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20183 min read
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Free speech trumps ‘offensiveness’
Oregon’s Liberty High School must respect a student’s free-speech rights to wear a “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.”...
Joanne Jacobs
May 31, 20181 min read
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Remember when every kid counted?
all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.” Under No Child Left Behind...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20181 min read
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How immigrants learn English in Canada
In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 16, 20182 min read
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Study links DACA to more schooling, fewer births
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which linked eligibility to schooling, led to a 15 percent increase in high...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20182 min read
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Online degree expands college access
Georgia Tech’s online master’s in computer science program enabled mid-career workers to earn a degree that would have been out of reach...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 23, 20181 min read
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Immigrant students catch up quickly in Canada
Teacher Ann Woomert works with Aisha, 12, from Somalia, in class for English Learners at an Ontario school. Photo: Ian Willms/Boreal...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 1, 20181 min read
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Don’t blame tech for teen suicides
Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20181 min read
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Immigrant parents aren’t keen on bilingual ed
Mural by students at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified is tripling the number of dual-immersion bilingual...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 31, 20182 min read
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Bilingual ed as white privilege
Middle-class, native English-speaking, white parents are flooding into dual-immersion bilingual programs, writes Conor Williams in The...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20182 min read
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The new college try
The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 1, 20182 min read
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Refuge, friendship and hope
In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20171 min read
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NY cuts English classes for immigrants
Beginning English Language Learners (ELLs) need direct instruction in English writes Arthur Goldstein, an English as a Second Language...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20171 min read
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Latinos go to college — but few earn 4-year degrees
Latinos’ high school graduation rates have soared and they’re far more likely to enroll in two- and four-year colleges. However Latino...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 15, 20171 min read
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Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20171 min read
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Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20172 min read
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Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 27, 20171 min read
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Welcome to Refugee High
Chicago’s Sullivan High has raised its enrollment and test scores by welcoming immigrants and refugees, reports Elly Fishman for Chicago...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 20171 min read
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