Joanne Jacobs
Trying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 8, 20181 min read
They grow up not so fast
#College #maturity #overparenting
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 24, 20182 min read
You got into college. Now what?
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has good advice on how to get the most out of college. Hanging with people from the same background...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20182 min read
New Orleans improves — a lot
“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20182 min read
College with autism: What helps
Students on the autism spectrum may do well in high school, but fail in college, writes Brendan Borrell on Spectrum. Some colleges now...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 22, 20172 min read
Tide turns on Title IX investigations
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have “codified the Obama-era Education Department’s guidance for how...
Joanne Jacobs
May 6, 20172 min read
I mentor
I’ve signed up to mentor an 11th grader — for the next three years — via iMentor, which is looking for mentors in San Jose, Oakland,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20171 min read
College writing center: Grammar is racist
Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20162 min read
Walk on the bewildering side
College should be where things “get more complicated, not less,” writes Lyell Asher, a Lewis & Clark English professor, in The American...
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