Joanne Jacobs
Biden picks teachers’ unions over students
The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 30, 20182 min read
Integrating by choice in San Antonio
San Antonio is using school choice to integrate its schools — and to raise test scores, report Beth Hawkins on The 74. San Antonio’s...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 19, 20181 min read
NC parents choose alternatives
North Carolina public schools are losing students to charter schools, private schools and homeschooling, reports T. Keung Hui in the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20181 min read
Catholic schools teach self-control
Catholic schools build self-discipline, concludes a Fordham study. Students in Catholic schools were compared to public-school students...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Integration is not parents’ priority
With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20182 min read
We didn’t choose integration for our kids
As a second grader, Tanzi West Barbour, a black girl living in a white neighborhood in Fort Worth, was bused to an all-black school as...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20181 min read
Charter support rebounds
Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 27, 20181 min read
Test scores don’t predict life outcomes
How do we measure a school’s success? School of choice that raise reading and math scores don’t always improve later outcomes, such as...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20182 min read
A better school for my child
Lane Wright and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20181 min read
Choice integrates — and gentrifies
School choice encourages integration and gentrification in low-income, minority neighborhoods, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. “The...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20181 min read
Despite legal fights, charters thrive in Washington state
Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 16, 20181 min read
Requiring the impossible leads to fraud
Washington, D.C. public schools were held up as a model of “expert driven” education reform, writes Max C. Eden and Lindsey Burke on...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 4, 20182 min read
Can charters be ‘schools of virtue’
Urban Catholic schools are closing, victims of an obsolete funding model, writes Stephanie Saroki de García of Seton Partners. The...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 3, 20181 min read
The rise of private schools
Massachusetts passed the first compulsory education law was passed in 1852 in response to Catholic immigration. The secular school system...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 26, 20181 min read
Disabled kids need well-off parents
Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20181 min read
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20171 min read
Educators aren’t all liberals — they say
Educators aren’t all liberals, according to Education Week’s new survey. But most oppose all forms of school choice. About half of...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 5, 20171 min read
Not a gang school any more
Enrollment is soaring at Benito Juarez Community Academy. Photo: Amadou Diallo/Hechinger Report Choice has emptied many low-performing...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20172 min read
All-minority charters: Is it segregation?
At 25 percent of urban charter schools, 99 percent of students are non-white, reports AP. That compares to 10 percent of traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 2, 20171 min read
Parents prefer private schools
Ninety-three percent of private-school parents and 90 percent of homeschoolers were satisfied with their children’s education, compared...
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