Joanne Jacobs
Out the classroom door, but still teaching
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20222 min read
Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?
While social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for...
Joanne Jacobs
May 3, 20221 min read
To get special-ed teachers, pay more
Teaching special-needs students is challenging and stressful. Special education teachers are in short supply across the country, and have...
Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20222 min read
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20191 min read
How To Love Your Students
This author goes more for “tough love” than “the soft bigotry of low expectations”: Teachers love their students. We see the joy they...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20181 min read
Grade inflation is expanding
Grade inflation is expanding, especially at high schools with affluent students, concludes a Fordham’s newest study, Grade Inflation in...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 17, 20182 min read
Black boys lack ‘a teacher who looks like me’
Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20181 min read
Excellent teachers or small classes?
What’s more important: excellent teachers or small class sizes? Singapore’s educational success is based on highly qualified,...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 29, 20181 min read
Math licensing test is too hard, say teachers
Does a third-grade teacher need to know high school math? asks Ann Doss Helms in the Charlotte Observer. “Almost 2,400 North Carolina...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Coaching works for teachers
Personalized training for teachers is effective, write Matthew A. Kraft and David Blazar in Education Next, but taking coaching to scale...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 1, 20181 min read
Teachers aren’t fired for teaching badly
Teachers aren’t fired very often — and almost never for teaching badly, write Amy Cummings and Nate Malkus on AEI. Miami University’s...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20182 min read
Has inclusion gone too far?
Inclusion — placing students with disabilities in mainstream classes — may not help special-needs students learn, concludes Allison...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 16, 20182 min read
Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 11, 20181 min read
Teachers get (very small) baseball bats
“It is the last resort,” said Millcreek School District Superintendent William Hall, who called the 16-inch bats primarily “symbolic.”...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 29, 20181 min read
Miami may build schools with teacher housing
Miami-Dade may build apartments for teachers on school property, reports Douglas Hanks in the Miami Herald. A preliminary proposal...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20181 min read
Teachers wanted: special ed, ESL, math, science
“The number of U.S. teachers has grown by 13 percent in four years, far outpacing the 2 percent rise in student enrollment, writes Debra...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 19, 20182 min read
Does your kid’s preschool teacher need a degree?
Should preschool teachers be college graduates? “Our most important teachers” — preschool teachers — are paid the least, writes Jeneen...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20182 min read
Will robots replace teachers?
Robots will replace teachers by 2027, predicts Anthony Seldon, a British educator. Can teaching be automated? asks Kristin Houser, senior...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 25, 20171 min read
Study: Teacher bonuses raise results
Teacher performance pay is linked to a slightly better math and reading results in a new federal study reports Liana Loewus in Education...
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