Joanne Jacobs

It's a spaceship, it's a castle, it's an empty cardboard box

In Shanghai, AI is the teacher's assistant

The great disenchantment: Does edtech help kids learn?

Screens in school: Don't 'gamify' kindergarten, say parents

Solving the math problem: Who decides how to teach math?

'Long Covid' for learning loss: 14% of schools caught up in reading and math

Why can't kids behave? Parents undermine discipline, say teachers

Bye-bye bisexual women: Young adults move away from LGBT identities

Court rules for parents' right to know about their child's 'transition'

Microschool is a charter and a district school -- and a homeschool hybrid

Hermione Granger and Tracy Flick are the true heroes

4th-grade homework gone wrong: AI created sexy Pippi for book report

Why teachers assign less homework: Students won't do it -- but AI will

'We're graduating people who can't do basic arithmetic'

The tutor is virtual -- the learning is real

Anyone can homeschool -- but should they?

People with ADHD can hyperfocus -- if they're motivated

Parents, civilize your sons

No need to listen, read, write or think: AI will do college for you

Texas: College-prep classes set students up for college failure

How advanced is AP? Exam scores are inflated, says new competitor

Study what works -- and what keeps on working

Toys or tech?

Amok time: Elementary kids' behavior is out of control, say teachers

What if every day was a (12-hour) school day?

Are choice students learning more in private schools? We don't know

To end the education depression, choose school choice

Thinking with AI

Parents say: Bring back pencil and paper

Learning 'isn't always fun, and that's OK'

Great Books are hard, and that's good

From broke to woke to broken: How the humanities lost their way

Is the autism epidemic a myth?

Be not afraid: The world is safer than ever

Edtech is booming, but so is 'brain rot'

Harvard profs may OK limit on A's, and students aren't happy

Inflated grades lead to deflated pay

Learn from Mississippi (really) how to improve learning and equity

I won 'Teacher of the Year' for enthusiasm, but kids weren't learning

Teach students how to argue

When kids walk out of school to protest ICE

Black, Hispanic students shift from elite colleges to state flagships

Will this be on the test? Texas may base tests on state reading list

Test history, geography and civics knowledge or schools won't teach it

'Disconnected' diplomas are useless

Asian-American students work hard: Is that a problem?

China is training geniuses to compete in math, science and AI

Teens should read great (but hard) books: 'Macbeth' is better than 'Hunger Games'

'Wuthering Heights' is hot

Plumber or programmer? Trades workers close the job gap

The future is female in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, law . . .

Movies are boring, say film students

Now that 'A' is for 'average,' Harvard considers adding A+ grades

Family reading doesn't have to end with 'Goodnight Moon'

Reading lessons focus on 'tasks' -- not understanding

Where in the world is ... Greenland? Gaza? Ukraine? Iran?

Too many tweens and teens can't read the textbook

From 'The Cat in the Hat' to 'Hamlet' to 'The Lord is my shepherd ... '

Thinking about 'mindfulness'

88% of college students pretend to be progressive to fit in

Tutoring works -- if kids actually get tutored

Teach the kids: 'Natural' learning is 'slow, brutal' and sometimes fatal

Boring books? Will teens love reading if books are 'accessible' (easier)?

Is knowledge obsolete? Beware of replacing academics with 'new' skills

'Portrait of a Graduate' is lite on academics: They can't read, but they have 'global empathy'

UK government is 'hoisted by their own perky, purple-haired, patriotic petard'

'Students spout opinions based on personal experience,' because reading is 'stressful'

Don't scare kids away from school: Immigrants are not 'safer at home'

Teens are on phones for 70 minutes at school, 300 minutes a day overall

Home again

I'm off to New Zealand

'One Big Book' doesn't seem like much

Teacher pay is down as school spending goes up

It's AI all the way down: Colleges are using AI to screen applications

Let's do better in 2026

Is it time for trade school?

Don't learn to code: Stanford grads compete with AI for programming jobs

Teachers aren't 'fleeing' the classroom

Free day care for all: What could go wrong?

Jingle all the way

Only disconnect: Students need offline learning spaces

Peace on earth, goodwill toward men

It's beginning to look a lot like . . . Never mind

How to save a small holiday-centric business in a quaint hometown

AI is not your child's best friend

Ed Dean Smug Snidely: 'We cognicize new teachers to think the right things

Xyr be crazy: Teaching neopronouns in 'what we now call' the USA

Handwriting is linked to learning, memory and thinking

Studying the humanities is hard, and that's a good thing

Greatly reduced expectations: Students read few 'whole books' or none at all

The Left thinks poor kids can't learn

Reclaiming childhood

TikTok block: Australia bans social media for under-16-year-olds

Know before you go (with federal aid) to high-risk, low-earnings colleges

Paying more for a master's degree doesn't make sense

'Aha' moments don't add up to learning

Can small schools survive?

New pro-American history standards stress the evils of communism

Texas' English curriculum: What would Jesus do?

Bad for the brain: Kids are learning less in high-tech schools

It's not smart to give smartphones to young children

'Classical' schools could bring charters to the suburbs

Parents' choice, public funding: Don't we need to know if kids are learning?

We need a new IDEA

Dubious disabilities: 'It's rich kids getting extra time on tests'

Resist the AI apocalypse: Students want to be 'capable humans, independent thinkers'

You'll probably never use this, but learn it anyhow

US colleges rely on foreign students to pay the bills, staff research labs

We broke the ladder

Thankful to be Americans

'No child has ever been inspired by despair'

By middle school, students need more than 'the cat sat on the mat'

High schools require too many subjects -- and too little competence

C students will get automatic college admission in California

Visioning synergies in the School of Human Narratives

The anti-knowledge league prefers 'engagement' to learning

Idiocratic education

Today's students will earn 8% less (but won't know how much that is)

Structured math is the new old math: Teach the basics, test mastery, move on

Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade

How to raise low-tech teens

Kindergarteners with Chromebooks

Teachers can't compete with TikTok and YouTube, and they shouldn't try

Unready or not, they're going to college

If your kid's school is 'comprehensive,' is that good? (Nope)

UC San Diego adds remedial class in elementary and middle-school math

AI is learning how to teach: Will bots replace human teachers?

Futureness is the future!

Learning lasts when teachers are 'brave enough to be boring'

Intensive parenting is driving parents (and their kids) crazy

Kids prefer memes and make-up videos to 'War and Peace'

Special ed is failing: Can we do better?

Schools that work: Juanito can read at Hoover Street Elementary

What's wrong with 'just right' books

Getting math wrong

Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college?

Racial preferences by other names

Harvard students fear tougher grading: 'I skipped classes and sobbed in bed'

Halloween cowgirls (but no Indians), Harry Potter and Holocaust victims

NEA trains teachers in activism, self-care and 'the future of trans'

While teachers worry about discipline, ed researchers focus on 'equity'

Teach children that America is a good country, say teachers

A radical idea to improve schools: Do what works

'Patriotic' education isn't just flag-waving

Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is 'dangerous, alluring'

University of Florida tops new college rankings

What I learned in traffic school

Is this the last dance? LA's anti-charter board votes to close popular school

Students learn more, fight less after smartphone bans

Kids don't know enough to 'do history' like historians

Best-selling bunk: We want to believe the easy answer

Keeping smart kids down

20% of high school graduates are 'barely literate'

After the patriarchy: The HR lady is in charge now

Teaching inside the bubble: Students hear one side of controversial issues

'Public schools don't belong to the teachers'

Taking ideology out of teacher prep: Is testing teachers the answer?

'Meet students where they are' -- and then what?

Despite the Holocaust, 'competitive victimhood' is a loser for Jews

Book 'bans' sell books

Harvard profs say students don't speak up in class (if they show up at all)

It's not a crisis: Students are saying 'no' to low-value colleges, low-pay majors

Going, going, gone

Knowledge matters: You can't think critically about nothing in particular'

Nervous in New England: Can the North rise again?

Merit pay is making a comeback

Is a 'guide on the side' better than a teacher?

At calm, focused schools, scores are high, but so is suspension rate

Teaching kids the habits of anxious, depressed people isn't working well

Social-emotional learning is now 'character ed' or 'life skills' or ...

Equity or mediocrity? Mamdani would phase out gifted classes in early grades

How many Americans could pass the new citizenship exam?

Is Alpha School the future?

Why special-ed teachers quit: High stress, high risk, low pay

Math teacher was trained on equity, culture, but not how to teach math

Won't read, can't think

'Basic' readers can't make sense of the Tylenol-autism debate

To win back public-school parents, be like Mississippi

Where are they now? Urban public schools see steep fall in enrollment

National parks remove 'negative' signs

U.S. Ed Dept will fund 'unifying, uplifting' civics, history lessons

High schoolers are earning career credentials, but most have no value

College dreams: Should your kid major in psychology? Cannabis studies?

Colleges add football to boost male enrollment, school spirit

Teachers are sold 'snake oil' about brains and learning

Why 45% of 12th-graders are 'below basic' in math

2 + 2 = oppression

Hating the haters: Americans have a right to be nasty

Can teachers be fired for celebrating murder?