Joanne Jacobs
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 24, 20222 min read
22 weeks of lost learning
Remote students’ learning losses are worse than educators are willing to acknowledge, writes Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 3, 20201 min read
Tutoring, or Test Prep?
I was well into this article before I realized that the British “tuition” must be the American “tutoring”. An east London secondary...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20181 min read
Good for the goose, bad for the gander
When schools provide Saturday catch-up classes, disadvantaged students earn higher scores, but advantaged students do worse, concludes an...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 10, 20181 min read
College-going is up, but many drop out
Seventy percent of high school graduates go straight to college, up from 63 percent in 2000. But, one in five don’t make it to sophomore...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20172 min read
Good education works for special-needs kids
“High-quality generation education can lead to remarkable progress for special education students,” conclude Elizabeth Setren and Nora...
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