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If schools pay students, will they come?
Learning loss and absenteeism are a crisis, writes Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, a member of Boston's school board, on the Hechinger Report....
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 30, 20221 min read
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'Ya gotta believe'
"We're not good now, but we can get better" was the unofficial motto of a start-up charter high school in San Jose, I concluded in 2001....
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20222 min read
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Reinvent high school, but how?
Fordham's 2022 Wonkathon is looking for ideas on how to reinvent high school: What policy barriers get in the way? If we all agree that...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 13, 20221 min read
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Virtual tutoring won't work if students don't use it
On-demand virtual tutoring has the potential to help students catch up in school, concludes a recent study of California students in...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 9, 20222 min read
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Why does Kalamazoo Promise work for women but not men?
The Kalamazoo Promise, which guarantees college scholarships to all graduates of the Michigan city's schools, has increased college...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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If the students don't care ...
Desperately trying to get failing students to a diploma, counselors are putting kids who can't pass Integrated Math 1 (ninth grade) into...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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