Joanne Jacobs
New schools end up like old schools
High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20181 min read
Where do you really live?
Kicked Out shows how districts in the Philadelphia suburbs keep out non-district students. In one segment of the series, WHYY reporter...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 13, 20182 min read
Principal pays kids not to fight
At a high-poverty, low-performing K-8 school in Philadelphia, eighth graders don’t get into fights any more. Their principal promised...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20182 min read
Reforming school discipline: Too fast?
Is school discipline reform moving too fast? asks Wayne D’Orio in The Atlantic. In the Highline district south of Seattle, suspensions...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 10, 20172 min read
New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20172 min read
Backpack full of mishmash
Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 8, 20171 min read
Boys to educated men
Boys Latin Of Philadelphia Charter School will be featured on NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. The motto of the school, which...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20172 min read
Anti-choice folks choose for their own kids
People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...
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