Joanne Jacobs
Educators aren’t all liberals — they say
Educators aren’t all liberals, according to Education Week’s new survey. But most oppose all forms of school choice. About half of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20171 min read
All under-18 sex is abuse in Oregon
If an Oregon teacher believes that two 17-year-old students are having consensual sex with each other, she must report the “child abuse”...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 20, 20172 min read
Vermont teachers try proficiency-based ed
Vermont teachers are trying to figure out how to meet the state’s mandate for Proficiency-Based Education in grades 7 to 12, writes Math...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 19, 20172 min read
Let teachers control training, classroom $
Choice is good for teachers too, argues Mike Goldstein, founder and former CEO of Match Education in Boston, and former Chief Academic...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20171 min read
What do parents want? What can schools do?
In Pondering Parent 3.0, Mike Goldstein, the founder and former CEO of Match Education in Boston, and former Chief Academic Officer of...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20171 min read
White teachers expect less of black students
White teachers’ low expectations for their black students could become “self-fulfilling prophecies,” concludes an analysis published in...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 23, 20172 min read
Teach for America turns left
Teach for America, founded in 1990 to challenge the educational status quo, has turned left, writes Sohrab Ahmari, a former TFA corps...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20172 min read
Achievers don’t want to be teachers
High achievers don’t want to be teachers, reports Madeline Will for Education Week Teacher. “Around the world, students who want to go...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 24, 20172 min read
Absentee teachers
More than 28 percent of teachers in traditional public schools — but only 10 percent of charter teachers — miss 11 or more days of...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20172 min read
Can we have better — and more diverse — teachers?
Reformers want to “raise the bar” for new teachers and put more Latino and black teachers in the classroom. Can we have better and more...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 9, 20172 min read
Tech-savvy teachers build their brands
Tech-savvy teachers are building their brands and forging relationships with edtech companies, reports Natasha Singer in the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20172 min read
Schoolifying — or suckifying — Minecraft
Microsoft is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft without “suckifying” it, writes Anya Kamenetz in NPR. Minecraft, which lets players build a...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20171 min read
Testing pushes weakest teachers to K-2
How should an elementary school deploy its best teachers? Many would argue that first grade is the most critical grade — or maybe...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20171 min read
Male Teachers
At my elementary school, all the K-3 teachers were women and all but 1 or 2 of the Grades 4-6 teachers were men. In junior high and high...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20171 min read
90% of parents: My kid is doing well
Parents worry about paying for college, a Learning Heroes survey shows. They worry if their kids are happy and safe at school. But they...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 27, 20171 min read
How to hire more teachers: Pay more
“To lure experienced educators to the school, the district is offering extra pay totaling $70,000 per teacher over the next three years.”...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20171 min read
DC’s teacher reforms pay off
District of Columbia Public Schools, “once among the nation’s worst,” are now considered a good place to teach, writes Thomas Toch in...
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20171 min read
Schools staff up — but most hires aren’t teachers
Public schools are hiring — but most new staff aren’t classroom teachers, concludes a new EdChoice report. “Non-teachers have been hired...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 24, 20172 min read
How Miss Kindergarten made $1 million
Miss Kindergarten, Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls and about a dozen other “teacher-entrepreneurs are spinning reading, math, science and...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 11, 20171 min read
Why teachers leave
Teachers leave schools because of poor working conditions — not because students come from poor families, concludes Teacher Turnover in...
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