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Joanne Jacobs

@joanneleejacobs

Education (joannejacobs.com) blogger, author of Our School.

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Modern English classes: Monday: Pick a novel where you feel “seen.” Tuesday: Watch a video about empathy. Wednesday: Journal your feelings about the novel. Thursday: Do a group activity where everyone shares their feelings. Friday: Still can’t write a coherent paragraph.

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Expanding "autism" to include kids with mild symptoms -- and the awkward and eccentric -- created the "epidemic." tinyurl.com/kcvutrj7

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Intelligence gets no respect in US classrooms. Teachers believe in "multiple intelligences" or "street smarts," but not in the fact that some kids learn faster than others. tinyurl.com/3tywakfy

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I sort of wondered if our next move would be to define-away literacy so as to not acknowledge the loss. Guess the answer is yes!

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A man hit a teenager who was waiting in line for donuts and called him a homophobic slur. Hate crime? Or stupidity crime? tinyurl.com/3pfpeyn2

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Blue-collar boom: AI is creating jobs for technicians to cool data centers, taking entry-level white-collar jobs. tinyurl.com/28z2knmt #jobs #workforce job training #skills

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Facing entry-level job crunch, new grads question the value of a degree Gen Z is struggling to get a foot in the door professionally. They’re competing with AI and more experienced workers, and they feel alienated by hiring processes. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/… Taylor Telford

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Blue-collar boom: AI is creating jobs for technicians to cool data centers, taking entry-level white-collar jobs. tinyurl.com/28z2knmt

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Teacher-led prayer in public schools? Supremes said "no" in 1962, but most Americans like the idea. tinyurl.com/yc43f44f #schoolprayer #churchstate FIRE ACLU

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Moms for Liberty Nope. It does nothing to prevent teachers from using a critical theorist/systemic oppression lens in every English and social studies class. But yes, you can opt out of LGBTQ stuff in elementary school. It’ll still be in the middle and high school libraries though, unless you

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“LGBTQ content was deliberately woven throughout California’s educational standards in a way that makes opt-out nearly impossible to exercise in practice.”

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Blue-collar boom: AI is creating jobs for technicians to cool data centers, taking entry-level white-collar jobs. tinyurl.com/28z2knmt