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Opinion | The case for thoughtful cellphone restrictions in schools

Mar 14, 2025 Bridge Michigan
As educators throughout the state design and implement rules regarding cellphone use in school, we urge them to think carefully about how they will know if their policies are working as intended. It is easy for anecdotes and perceptions to shape the...
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In the Media

Jacob questions efficiency in the use of tech in classrooms

Jan 22, 2025 The Wall Street Journal
The Ford School's Brian Jacob recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal regarding his 2023 research survey on the use of technology in classrooms. Jacob's survey was conducted among 1,000 educators and showed technology is used for completing...
Jacob questions efficiency in the use of tech in classrooms
In the Media

How did the pandemic change schooling?

Sep 4, 2024 American Enterprise Institute: The Report Card Podcast
On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with Brian Jacob about the ways in which the pandemic changed the grammar of schooling. Nat and Brian discuss the pandemic’s effects on student technology use, parent-teacher communication, and...
Brian Jacob on The Report Card Podcast: How Did the Pandemic Change Schooling?
In the Media

How the Flint water crisis set schoolchildren back

Mar 13, 2024 The Washington Post
School-age children affected by the water crisis in Flint, Mich., nearly a decade ago suffered significant and lasting academic setbacks, according to a study released Wednesday, showing the disaster’s profound impact on a generation of children.The...
Flint residents voice their concerns at Flint City Hall water meeting. Photo credit: Sam Owens
In the Media

Students’ math outcomes have plummeted. Here’s what to do

Jan 2, 2024 Education Week
Math education across the country is in urgent need of redesign, and recent NAEP scores confirm there is no time to waste, with students showing the largest decline in math scores for 4th and 8th graders since 1990.Recent findings from the EdWeek...
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State & Hill

COVID-19 and education: A tough time for all

Dec 19, 2022
Ford School education researchers look for answers By Shaun Manning From early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered public education in the United States. Many schools introduced remote learning for at least part of the 2020-2021...
COVID-19 and education: A tough time for all
News

Math games: High 5s program brings the 'math out of play'

Apr 11, 2022
TAYLOR—While groups of first graders work in clusters at pods around the classroom, four children face their teacher at a U-shaped desk, backs straight and eyes alert as she deals cards to each of them.  They're playing "Chocolate Chip Count," a...
Math games: High 5s program brings the 'math out of play'
In the Media

Jacob weighs in on chronic absenteeism

Feb 27, 2022 Chillicothe Gazette
Across the country, schools are struggling with chronic absenteeism. Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, weighed in on the issue. "Even before we figure out if we should improve the curriculum, at the basic level you...
Jacob weighs in on chronic absenteeism
In the Media

Jacob discusses chronic absenteeism fueled by pandemic

Feb 20, 2022 The Columbus Dispatch
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the nation are struggling with rising absenteeism rates. Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, weighed in on the issue.  "There was a once-in-a-century global public...
Jacob finds little benefit, large costs to pretrial juvenile detention
Journal Article

The Alignment of P–3 Math Instruction

October 30, 2024
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Mimi Engel, Robin Tepper Jacob, Anna Erickson, Shira Mattera, Danielle Shaw Attaway, Amy Claessens
Preschool through third grade (P–3) alignment is regularly named as a key aspect of early childhood education and the transition to formal schooling. However, little is known about P–3 alignment in practice. Using data from 265 observations of math...
an elementary student writing on paper solving a math problem
Journal Article

Kindergarten in a Large Urban District

August 30, 2021
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Mimi Engel, Robin Tepper Jacob, Amy Claessens, Anna Erickson
Using data from 82 classroom observations conducted in a large urban school district, we explore how kindergartners spend their time in general and across schools serving children from lower and higher income households. Consistent with prior...
a line of kindergaten students playing on the playground
Report

NAF Students in Detroit

May 30, 2021
Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan requested data access and completed the analysis included in this report. The data are structured and maintained by the MERI-Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC). MEDC data is modified for analysis...
Two students studying outdoor on laptops
Journal Article

A Framework for Learning From Null Results

December 10, 2019
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Robin Tepper Jacob, Fred Doolittle, James Kemple, Marie-Andrée Somers
A substantial number of randomized trials of educational interventions that have been conducted over the past two decades have produced null results, with either no impact or an unreliable estimate of impact on student achievement or other outcomes...
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