Joanne Jacobs
More Michigan 3rd graders fail reading test
Third graders who are a year behind in reading are supposed to repeat the grade under Michigan’s “read by grade three” law, but few are...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 15, 20221 min read
Remote ed was double-whammy for poor students
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 23, 20181 min read
Has your child ever seen a therapist?
Florida schools are asking for students’ mental health histories on registration forms, reports Julio Ochoa on NPR. Parents worry their...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20181 min read
Good for the goose, bad for the gander
When schools provide Saturday catch-up classes, disadvantaged students earn higher scores, but advantaged students do worse, concludes an...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 10, 20182 min read
Nation’s report card shows ‘lost decade’
Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20181 min read
Florida creates voucher for bullying victims
Bullied students will be offered a voucher to cover transportation to a new public school or a $6,700 voucher toward tuition at a private...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20172 min read
Farewell to the exit exam
As states try to boost high school graduation rates, exit exams are losing favor. “In 2013-14, some 24 states had an exit exam or...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20171 min read
Florida vouchers boost college-going
Low-income Florida students who used a tax-credit-funded scholarship to attend private school were more likely to enroll in college,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20171 min read
‘Dashboards’ replace A-F school grades
It’s getting harder to hold schools accountable for performance writes Lane Wright on Education Post. The Education Department’s new ESSA...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 1, 20172 min read
Denisha’s story
“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” said President Trump in his speech to Congress. He called for funding “school choice...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 15, 20171 min read
More money or more charter schools?
“Letting great educators open up schools is much more cost effective than increasing spending by billions of dollars,” argues Neerav...
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