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
Oct 14, 20182 min read
In defense of (good) homework
Homework can help students learn and narrow the achievement gap, writes Janine Bempechat, clinical professor of human development at...
Joanne Jacobs
May 12, 20181 min read
Parents spend more time with kids
My mother, my sister and me (the fat baby) in 1952. Parents — especially educated parents — spend a lot more time caring for their...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 11, 20171 min read
Parent report cards: Gutsy or pushy?
One of the secrets of Success Academy schools’ success is “holding parents to account for honoring the agreement they signed when...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 3, 20171 min read
When homework goes wrong
When homework goes wrong, parents should remember three rules, writes K.J. Dell’Antonia in Medium. 1. It’s not yours. 2. What kids learn...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20172 min read
The new homework: reading
Elementary schools are dropping homework in favor of reading, reports Greg Toppo in USA Today. There’s “very little correlation between...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 26, 20172 min read
Homework ban irks some parents
Banning homework for elementary school kids has divided parents, reports Kyle Spencer in the New York Times. Public School 11, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 22, 20171 min read
Foreign students: U.S. schools are easy
Two-thirds of foreign-exchange students say U.S. high schools are “much easier” than schools in their home countries, writes Tom Loveless...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 20, 20171 min read
Trump-twitting homework is __________
A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 11, 20172 min read
Busy work kills love of reading
School assignments killed his son’s love of reading, writes Tony on Leading Motivated Learners. Reading logs and summaries became a...
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