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Cheers and Jeers: January 20, 2022

The Education Gadfly
1.20.2022

Cheers

  • Harrison Bader of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team volunteered to substitute for a class to help with teacher shortages. —Belleville News-Democrat
  • Learning loss is leading to changes in school calendars, including starting earlier and ending later. —The 74
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams has a chance to leave a strong education legacy by lowering barriers to charter school expansion. —Wall Street Journal

Jeers

  • Progressives have refused to admit that school closings were a historic and foreseeable blunder. That’s how they lost the public’s trust. —Jonathan Chait
  • “Nearly half of all school and district leaders (44 percent) say they are receiving more threats of violence by students now than they did in the fall of 2019.” —Education Week
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