Joanne Jacobs
Teach students to meet deadlines, handle stress
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 17, 20221 min read
‘P’ is for ‘push off’
High school teachers in Casa Grande, Arizona are “revisiting” failing grades to enable more students to graduate. #failure #gradechanges...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 11, 20182 min read
‘College for all’ works — for 16% of students
Our education system fails most students, argues Oren Cass, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of How the Other Half Learns. ...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 9, 20182 min read
Don’t tie diploma to college-prep coursework
Requiring college-prep coursework to earn a diploma is a mistake, writes Russell Rumberger on EdSource. An emeritus University of...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20181 min read
Counselors are the first to be cut
Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016,...
Joanne Jacobs
May 24, 20181 min read
Wearing What You Want At Graduation
Over at my own blog I posted about a Nebraska student who was told she could not wear an army sash over her gown at her high school...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20182 min read
Honest diplomas
The only way to award honest high school diplomas is to give students a choice of meeting basic, career-ready or university-ready...
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
Nov 29, 20172 min read
No show, no skills — but they got into college
Every senior was admitted to college at Washington D.C.’s low-performing Ballou High in June. Most had applied to the open-admission...
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
Sep 22, 20171 min read
Dual-credit students do better in college
College students who took at least one college course in high school were more likely to earn a four-year degree than similar students...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20171 min read
Which colleges raise earnings?
University of California at Irvine tops Educate to Career’s college rankings, which compares how well colleges improve students’ labor...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 11, 20171 min read
Show up, volunteer, get a diploma
But many students won’t make it, legislators feared. Now schools are hiring “interventionists” and scrambling to put weak students on...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20171 min read
Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20172 min read
Raising grad rates, lowering standards
Graduation rates are up in Los Angeles Unified. But standards are down, writes Conor Williams. The LA Unified board lowered graduation...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 20172 min read
Teachers of color aren’t magic solution
Teachers of color are the latest magic bullet for our education woes, writes Alina Adams on New York School Talk. Black teachers...
Joanne Jacobs
May 24, 20172 min read
Online credit recovery creates diploma mills
Online “credit-recovery” programs are raising high school graduation rates, writes Zoë Kirsch as part of a Slate series called The Big...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20171 min read
Black teachers matter — integration doesn’t
Integrated schools won’t close the racial achievement gap, argues Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II in an Education Week commentary. Black...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 2, 20173 min read
A guided path to a degree
Young people go to college to search for him/her/xe-self, explore, experiment, discover a passion . . . Or perhaps to retake algebra,...
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