Joanne Jacobs
Whites vs. Asians in college admissions
Preferences for the children of wealthy donors — mostly white — are keeping high-scoring Asian-Americans out of elite private colleges,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20172 min read
‘Civil rights’ roll back? Or common sense?
The Trump administration is rolling back civil rights efforts, according to ProPublica. A leaked memo reveals that the Education...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20172 min read
P-TECH grows, but is it working?
IBM is scaling up the wildly popular P-TECH model,reports Jenny Abamu on EdSurge. But the original Brooklyn school is struggling to raise...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20172 min read
Trump cuts failed education programs
President Trump’s proposed education budget — called “devastating,” a “wrecking ball” and an “assault on the American Dream” —...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 5, 20171 min read
Trump backs choice, but what’s the plan?
President Trump wants to spend $20 billion on school choice for “disadvantaged youth.” Families “should be free to choose the public,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 28, 20171 min read
Trump: Black colleges are a priority
President Trump met with black college leaders yesterday. Today, he signed an executive order pledging support and moving the Initiative...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20171 min read
Trump drops transgender bathroom rule
President Trump has rescinded a federal guideline requiring schools to let transgender students use bathrooms corresponding with their...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 20, 20171 min read
Trump-twitting homework is __________
A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20171 min read
Teacher posts ‘shooting’ Trump video
“A high school art teacher in Dallas posted an Instagram video of herself ‘shooting’ an image of Donald Trump with a squirt gun and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20172 min read
DeVos, Darth and DeVil
News coverage about Betsy DeVos has been lousy, writes Alexander Russo in The Grade, now on the Kappan site. Instead of giving readers a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 19, 20172 min read
Trump’s inauguration: Safe for kids?
“Every peaceful transition of power is a historic moment,” a fourth-grade teacher in Michigan told parents in an email. Brett Meteyer...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 16, 20171 min read
Teachers protest discipline reform
Under pressure to reduce racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions, schools are turning to “restorative justice” programs that...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20172 min read
Who is Betsy DeVos? What will she do?
On the eve of confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20171 min read
DeVos: Mainstream or monster?
Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for Education secretary, is a “pretty mainstream pick – though usual suspects on right & left of...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20171 min read
NYT gets it wrong on economists and vouchers
Free Market For Education: Economists Generally Don’t Buy It, claims Susan Dynarski, a University of Michigan education professor, in the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 1, 20171 min read
Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
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