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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20182 min read
Our kids are team players: Is that the ideal?
“Collaborative problem-solving” is a strength for U.S. teens, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA),...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 21, 20171 min read
French schools say ‘non’ to cell phones
French schools will ban cell phones reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph. In addition to a classroom ban, students will not be allowed...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20171 min read
Iceland’s clean teens
Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20171 min read
Kids can take it
You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20172 min read
Achievers don’t want to be teachers
High achievers don’t want to be teachers, reports Madeline Will for Education Week Teacher. “Around the world, students who want to go...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20172 min read
In Arab world, girls rule in school: Why?
Female students outnumber males two to one at the University of Jordan Across the Arab world, girls rule in school, writes Amanda Ripley...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20172 min read
Are U.S. teachers underpaid?
U.S. teachers earn less, relative to other college-educated workers, than teachers in most other countries, according to the Organisation...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 14, 20171 min read
Shanghai schooling
Students are obedient achievers in a “military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 1, 20171 min read
International Schools
It’s August, which means the start of school is just around the corner. Heck, I go back to work one week from today, and students show up...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 10, 20172 min read
Teaching the old-time virtues
In “Schools Are Still Peddling the Self-Esteem Hoax,” Fordham’s Checker Finn criticizes social and emotional learning as another fad....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20172 min read
Apprenticeship: Will it work in the U.S.?
The much-admired German apprenticeship system “relies on a very stratified education system along with regulated and heavily unionized...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 29, 20172 min read
Chinese students know anyone could be watching
Thousands of schools in China “are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public,”...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 15, 20171 min read
U will monitor students’ social media, moods
university will monitor students’ social media posts to assess their well-being and happiness, reports Richard Vaughan on iNews. The...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 1, 20172 min read
Israel’s education secret: It’s not the schools
Israel is a global leader in technology, despite its small size, writes Naftali Bennett, a former high-tech CEO and now Minister of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 22, 20171 min read
Foreign students: U.S. schools are easy
Two-thirds of foreign-exchange students say U.S. high schools are “much easier” than schools in their home countries, writes Tom Loveless...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 11, 20171 min read
PISA’s best of the best
PISA4U, a “collaborative learning program for teachers and schools,” hopes to help schools improve. BASIS Schools, a national charter...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 8, 20171 min read
British teachers try police-style body cameras
British teachers are wearing police-style body cameras to deter and document disruption by their students, reports the BBC. Two schools...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20171 min read
Sex-change guide for kids riles Brits
Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity?, which will be introduced at some British primary schools, is — surprise! — causing controversy,...
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