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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20221 min read
‘Diversity’ is required, but it must be ‘critical’
Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 4, 20223 min read
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20222 min read
‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’
Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20182 min read
From ‘gifted’ classes to ‘enriched studies’
“Gifted” programs are becoming “enriched studies” in Montgomery County, Maryland, reports Dana Goldstein in the New York Times. The goal...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 14, 20181 min read
Would UCLA hire Einstein?
Would UCLA hire Albert Einstein as a professor? asks Heather Mac Donald in the Los Angeles Times. Starting this fall, all faculty...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Who makes it on the spaceship?
A middle-school assignment has sparked controversy by asking students who they’d leave behind if there were only eight seats on a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 24, 20182 min read
You got into college. Now what?
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has good advice on how to get the most out of college. Hanging with people from the same background...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 16, 20182 min read
End the craziness with college lottery
Stanford offered admission to 2,040 of the 47,450 students who applied in 2018: That’s 4.3 percent, a new low. Most of the 45,410 who...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Harvard discriminates against introverts
Harvard discriminates against introverts, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education and history at Penn, in the Washington...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20181 min read
Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?
The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20182 min read
Harvard: Asians aren’t likable, kind, ‘respected’
Asian-Americans are less likely to get into Harvard, despite higher grades and test scores and stronger extracurriculars than other...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 9, 20182 min read
How Asian kids ace exams for elite schools
At a highly selective public magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology near Washington D.C., 65 percent of...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20182 min read
Test-optional students are as likely to graduate
At colleges that don’t require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, students admitted on grades alone are just as likely to graduate...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 18, 20181 min read
‘White privilege’ goes too far in Oconomowoc
“Privilege” is too touchy a topic for parents in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, a mostly affluent, mostly white town, reports Annysa Johnson for...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 23, 20182 min read
Test-optional is not an equalizer
Test-optional college admissions tilts the playing field just a little bit more, writes Kelly Ochs Rosinger, a Penn education professor,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20172 min read
Teacher prep trains for mediocrity
A traditional teacher-preparation program qualified Ryan Williams-Virden to be a mediocre teacher, he writes. He “half-assed” his studies...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 12, 20171 min read
How Miami diversifies gifted classes
Gifted classes in Miami schools include a mix of low-income and minority students, reports Claudia Rowe for the Seattle Times. That’s...
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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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20171 min read
White teachers expect less of black students
White teachers’ low expectations for their black students could become “self-fulfilling prophecies,” concludes an analysis published in...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 23, 20172 min read
Teach for America turns left
Teach for America, founded in 1990 to challenge the educational status quo, has turned left, writes Sohrab Ahmari, a former TFA corps...
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