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
Aug 282 min read
Wisconsin lowers academic aims, adopts fuzzy labels
Wisconsin is lowering expectations for students.
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 192 min read
Fix 'em, don't nix 'em: Tests show what's working and what's not
The Zeitgeist, it is a changing. First, the New York Times ran David Leonhardt's defense of college admissions tests as a way to...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 14, 20232 min read
College fail: Are the Covid kids ready to learn?
"(Are you ready?) Yes, I'm ready . . . I don't even know how to hold your hand Just to make you understand But I'm ready (ready) to learn...
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