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About Max Jacobs

I'm a PhD student in Education at Rutgers University.

Max Jacobs is a PhD student in Education at Rutgers University. He currently sits on the Graduate Student Council for the History of Education Society.

NBN Episodes hosted by Max:

Education October 22, 2023

A Is for Arson

A History of Vandalism in American Education

Campbell F. Scribner

Hosted by Max Jacobs
In A Is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education (Cornell UP, 2023), Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have …
Education September 22, 2023

Off the Mark

How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)

Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt

Hosted by Max Jacobs
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Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning. Anyone who has ever …