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
Jul 25, 20182 min read
How Core kids learn reading, writing
Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 27, 20182 min read
What’s proficient? It’s every state for itself
Once upon a time, 45 states adopted Common Core standards and exams — either the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 15, 20181 min read
The high cost of cheap diplomas
“Making graduation too easy” doesn’t just undermine “the motivations of students (and teachers),” writes Robert Slavin, who directs the...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20172 min read
Orange is the new red
Orange is the new red for California schools, writes New America’s Conor Williams in The 74. Twice as many schools fell in the bottom...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 2, 20172 min read
Love, struggle and failure
In Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep, a three-part series by NPR and Education Week, Cory Turner...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 25, 20171 min read
Ohio may lower graduation requirements
Ohio raised its graduation requirements, promising graduates would be ready for college and careers. Now the state Board of Education is...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20172 min read
Common Core: Threat or menace?
“Six years after Common Core’s debut,” its critics “have produced enough books to collapse a sturdy bookshelf,” writes Fordham’s Robert...
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