Joanne Jacobs
Resolved: All students should take debate
“To heal our political and economic rifts” and “improve American education,” we should require all students to take debate, argues Robert...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 21, 20181 min read
Kids build ‘growth mindset,’ lose self-control skills
“As they progress through school, students are getting better at believing they can master challenging subjects, but they are getting...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 22, 20181 min read
Even confident, capable girls don’t study STEM
Girls who are high achievers in math, and confident about their ability, are less likely to major in math, engineering and science than...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20172 min read
Keeping the proles down
The college-educated class is “making sure their children retain their privileged status,” while the children of other classes have...
Joanne Jacobs
May 25, 20171 min read
Confident — and incompetent
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge,” wrote Charles Darwin inThe Descent of Man (1871). He was on to...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 31, 20171 min read
Mississippi kids become winners at chess
Someone — nobody knows who — paid a chess coach to to teach the game to grade schoolers in rural Franklin County, Mississippi, reports 60...
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