Joanne Jacobs
‘Rigor’ is a Potemkin village
High school rigor is often a facade, writes Natalie Wexler on Forbes. It’s a “Potemkin village.” High school graduates in the class of...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 8, 20182 min read
Write to think, think to write
Students can do everything asked of them in school, yet fail to meet grade-level standards, charges TNTP’s new Opportunity Myth report....
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20181 min read
Resolved: All students should take debate
“To heal our political and economic rifts” and “improve American education,” we should require all students to take debate, argues Robert...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 30, 20181 min read
Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20171 min read
Do college students learn to think? Many do not
In their fourth year of college, many students can’t gather, analyze and evaluate information, concludes a Wall Street Journal report. At...
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...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 31, 20172 min read
The kids can’t write (or reason)
Nearly 500 people — all college graduates — applied for a communications job at Marc Tucker’s organization. Candidates were asked to...
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