Joanne Jacobs
Lost in a special-ed maze
Special education is failing children in New York City, reports Elizabeth A. Harris in the New York Times. When “T.J.” was two, his...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20181 min read
White liberals choose separate, unequal schools
White liberals perpetuate segregation, charged journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in a lecture at Yale, reports Christopher Peak in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20182 min read
White girl plays racist in school play
Anastasia Bertram, 7, one of the only white students at her Georgia elementary school, was cast as a segregationist in the school play,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20181 min read
School choice shouldn’t be controversial
School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...
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...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20172 min read
Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in...
Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20172 min read
Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
“Segregating” refugees may help them integrate, suggests the Hechinger Report’s Meredith Kolodner. Bowling Green, Kentucky has opened a...
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
Jan 28, 20171 min read
Parenting as a competitive sport
In Lucinda Rosenfeld’s Class, which satirizes privileged, perfectionist Brooklynites, “parent is both a verb and a competitive sport,”...
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