Joanne Jacobs
Out the classroom door, but still teaching
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 25, 20182 min read
When high hopes meet low expectations
Most students “meet the demands of their assignments” more than two-thirds of the time, yet demonstrate mastery of grade-level standards...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20181 min read
Grade inflation is expanding
Grade inflation is expanding, especially at high schools with affluent students, concludes a Fordham’s newest study, Grade Inflation in...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20181 min read
If schooling was as important as football
Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 17, 20182 min read
Black boys lack ‘a teacher who looks like me’
Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 31, 20181 min read
Testing basic skills leads to two-tier system
Schools serving mainly poor and minority students end up teaching the basic skills and schools serving more advantaged students, knowing...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 12, 20182 min read
Kids made honor roll, but aren’t at grade level
“It’s no use if my kids are on the school’s honor roll if they are not proficient in reading and math,” a mother tells LA School Report’s...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 26, 20182 min read
The belief gap
Beth Hawkins writes about what it’s like when your child’s teachers don’t really believe he can learn. Her older son was offered learning...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 28, 20181 min read
Easy-pass policy fails students
In last week’s post on “grading floors,” Memphis teachers debated whether giving minimum grades for minimal achievement motivates failing...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 27, 20171 min read
Racial quotas for special ed?
Percentage of children and youth ages 3–21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by race/ethnicity: 2014–15...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 8, 20171 min read
How schools fail special-ed students
Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating from high school on time, writes Hechinger’s Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie...
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...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 1, 20171 min read
Parents have high hopes, but not always realistic
Parents have high, but not always realistic, hopes for their children’s futures, reports Sarah D. Sparks on Education Week. Nearly 70...
Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20172 min read
‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20172 min read
Good education works for special-needs kids
“High-quality generation education can lead to remarkable progress for special education students,” conclude Elizabeth Setren and Nora...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 11, 20171 min read
Black teacher raises black kids’ success odds
Black students are more likely to complete high school and consider college if they have at least one black teacher in elementary school,...
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