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Joanne Jacobs


Public school as a Chevy Impala

Andrew Coulson compares public education to a 1971 Chevy Impala, which sold for $3,460. That’s $19,011 in today’s dollars. If cars were like public schools, you would be compelled to buy one of...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 9 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Decline of the West? Not so

The Economist debate on workforce quality has concluded with participants expressing faith that the wealthy West can compete with rising Asian countries. Proposition: The competitiveness of workers...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 8 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Juvenile doomsday lit

Doomsday books for kids are hot, reports Newsweek. Scholastic is printing 200,000 copies of the teen-oriented “The Hunger Games,” about 24 kids in the ruins of North America forced by...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: children
Extracurricular learning

Extracurricular activities could be the secret to U.S. economic success, writes Mike Petrilli on Education Gadfly. While it’s lousy at producing academic achievement, as measured by math and...

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Tags: education
Drop-out data reveal crisis

Some 24.2 percent of California students drop out of high school, according to new state data. That’s nearly double the failure rate estimated before the state started tracking individual...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Drop-out data shows crisis

Some 24.2 percent of California students drop out of high school, according to new state data. That’s nearly double the failure rate estimated before the state started tracking individual...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Rhee on Rose

Charlie Rose talks with Michelle Rhee, chancellor of D.C.’s troubled school system.

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Underground math — with right answers!

“Renegade parents teach old math on the sly,” reports AP. On an occasional evening at the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Let the night nanny do it

Wealthy two-career couples can hire a night nanny to get up at 2 am with a crying baby, reports the New York Times. Anie Roche of Los Altos, Calif., hired a night nanny through Craigslist last...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: parenting
Carnival of Education

Steve Spangler is hosting this week’s Carnival of Education. Lorem Ipsum has advice on using distance education to accelerate truly gifted children. My daughter used one of the options he...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
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