Joanne Jacobs
Can we have better — and more diverse — teachers?
Reformers want to “raise the bar” for new teachers and put more Latino and black teachers in the classroom. Can we have better and more...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 9, 20171 min read
Engineering — or social engineering?
He takes aim at Purdue’s School of Engineering Education, which envisions a ““more socially connected” way of teaching. Donna Riley,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 3, 20171 min read
Heirs to the Declaration
Ancestry.com found 29 direct descendants of America’s Founding Fathers, to recreate John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence”...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 30, 20171 min read
Well-off liberals choose mostly white schools
Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 30, 20172 min read
Profs swear diversity oaths
The “loyalty oaths” of the ’50s have returned to academia, writes George Leef. Now professors and would-be professors must pledge...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20171 min read
College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20172 min read
College kids: Violence is ‘self-defense’
Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20171 min read
Stress tested
Tested a documentary about New York City eighth graders trying to qualify for elite public schools, will come out on DVD next month....
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 9, 20171 min read
‘If you want a great gay novel, write it’
More than 50 years ago, a Tulsa high school student wrote a novel about the conflict between “greasers” and rich kids. S.E. Hinton’s The...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20171 min read
PC bans kids’ books: Slave chefs must go
If the main character of your children’s book is a slave, watch out, warns Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. It’s hard to...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20162 min read
Walk on the bewildering side
College should be where things “get more complicated, not less,” writes Lyell Asher, a Lewis & Clark English professor, in The American...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20161 min read
Principal: ‘Bah, humbug’ to ‘Christmas Carol’
Fifth-graders didn’t put on A Christmas Carol this year at Centerville Elementary in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Why ditch a...
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