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Teaching shouldn't be 'guess what's in my head'
Explicit teaching works better than student-centered learning.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Only the education-rich can afford laissez-faire schools
Monogamy is "outdated," Troubled author Rob Henderson's Yale classmate told him. She's been raised in a stable, two-parent family and...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 1, 20242 min read
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The 'party of education' must value merit, get ideology out of classroom
Democrats used to be the "party of education" in voters' minds, notes Education Next. Now voters are split on who they trust most, with...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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You want equity? Teach more -- not less
The foolish idea that teaching kids less math will advance "equity" has spread from California, which has adopted watered-down guidelines...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 21, 20232 min read
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'Big ideas' aren't always good ideas
Impatience is the besetting sin of progressive education. Progressives want to skip the boring, old fundamentals -- phonics,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 14, 20232 min read
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If a Canadian walks 2 miles and 3.2 kilometers, how far is that in farsakhs?
Math is not "neutral," argueTori Trajanovski and Cristina De Simone on The Conversation. "Biases in math exist that are grounded in...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 7, 20232 min read
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