Joanne Jacobs
For years, a teacher groomed girls for sex
Matt Drange’s high school journalism teacher was a cut-up who always had time to hang out with students. Especially teenage girls from...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Questions to ask your child’s teacher
Rick Hess suggests 10 questions to ask your child’s teacher on Forbes. I like: What’s the one paper, project, or unit that I should...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20181 min read
Can school OK some protests, but not others?
If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 2, 20181 min read
It’s for his own good
gets off on exploiting his authority, chemistry teacher Bill Powderly of Marshall, Minnesota explained to The Onion. “Claiming that his...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20181 min read
They never forgot their 3rd-grade teacher
“The students in Miss Francinelee Hand’s 1961-62 third-grade class at Sabal Palm Elementary never forgot their teacher,” writes Kyra...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20171 min read
Learning to read — seriously
Stephen L. Carter was a math-science nerd at Ithaca High, when his 10th-grade English teacher, Judith Dickey, taught him to read — read...
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