Joanne Jacobs
Ignorance isn't bliss
Los Angeles Unified will let 10 schools with low-income students drop standardized tests in favor of their own assessments.
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 101 min read
Demand is high for skilled trades classes
Seventy percent of Los Angeles County students said they'd consider taking a skilled trades class, if their high school offered the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 32 min read
LA celebrates 'blackness' while black students fail in reading, math
Black students are "disastrously behind" in math, reading and attendance in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), writes Heather...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20231 min read
Chatbot 'Ed' will tell LA parents how their kids are doing in school
An interactive, multilingual chatbot named "Ed" will tell parents about their child's grades, test results and attendance" and serve as a...
Joanne Jacobs
May 30, 20232 min read
Chicago invests in small-group tutors, while LA shifts to classroom teachers
Chicago Public Schools are relying on "academic interventionists" to help students catch up in reading and math, reports Mila Koumpilova...
Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20232 min read
No-tell teaching: Figure it out for yourself, kid
A leprechaun has two pots of gold, each with 10 coins in it, plus three extra coins. How many coins does he have in all? Some...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 26, 20231 min read
If strike closes LA schools, it could be 'nail in the coffin'
A threatened strike by Los Angeles Unified's service workers -- custodians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and special-education aides --...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20222 min read
LA adds extra days, few students show up
Los Angeles students lost more than a year of in-person schooling. This week, about one in seven students in the huge district showed up...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 7, 20222 min read
Los Angeles schools will follow reading science, says Carvalho
"If we are going to follow the science, then we should really embrace all science, including the science of reading," said Alberto M....
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