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Classroom libraries aren't a crime in Florida
The "great Florida classroom library freak-out of 2023" is based on faulty reporting, confusing directives from local school officials...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 2, 20231 min read
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ESAs expand in red and purple states, states, and blue-staters are interested too
"Capitalizing on parent’s frustration with public schools during the pandemic," Republican governors are pushing for education savings...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20232 min read
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A sharp right turn for Florida's New College: 'We are recapturing higher ed'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to turn the very progressive New College of Florida, the state's liberal arts honors college, into a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20231 min read
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We're not that far apart on how to teach our history
The "history wars" are a fight between "imaginary enemies" concludes More in Common, after surveying Americans. "Both Democrats and...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 13, 20222 min read
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School choice is a winner
School choice advocates did well in the midterms, writes Mike McShane, national research director of EdChoice, in Forbes. Governors Ron...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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No critical race theory? No student teachers
A California ed school won’t send student teachers to a nearby school district that has banned critical race theory, reports Jill...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20221 min read
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'Critical race theory' means ... um ...
Should schools teach critical race theory (CRT)? Fifty-one percent of Americans have never heard of it or know nothing about it,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20221 min read
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'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 21, 20222 min read
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Diversity is skin deep at Harvard
Stanford discriminated against Jewish applicants in the early 1950's, admitted President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who issued an apology last...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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School choice withstands challenge in Arizona
A campaign to repeal Arizona's expansion of school choice apparently has failed to gather enough signatures to go on the ballot. Arizona...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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Rebuild trust or say 'good-bye' to students
Public schools must rebuild trust with parents -- or continue to lose students to homeschooling, private schools, microschools and other...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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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 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 26, 20222 min read
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Blue-collar workers don't want to pay college loans: 'Hell no!'
Linking student loan forgiveness to jobs and skills training would have been politically savvy, writes Andrew J. Rotherham on Eduwonk....
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 25, 20222 min read
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Education's middle ground is 'vanishing'
When schools closed in 2020, support for schools remained strong, but the public's faith in the quality of their local schools has...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20222 min read
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Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost education edge
Voters in battleground states trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on education issues, according to a new Hart poll...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 15, 20222 min read
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Kids, you’re not ‘stamped’
Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site. So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20222 min read
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UC sidelines ‘liberated ethnic studies’ mandate
California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 5, 20221 min read
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