Cheers
- More young women are delaying motherhood until their 20s, which has helped to dramatically reduce America’s teen birth and child poverty rates in the past 30 years. —New York Times
- Chapters of the NAACP are taking up the Science of Reading as a civil rights issue. —Hechinger Report
- Roxbury Prep—a public charter school in Boston—is growing its own teachers with a 5–week summer fellowship for rising college seniors. —CommonWealth Magazine
Jeers
- Indianapolis Public Schools is accused of denying a charter school network access to unused school buildings, a violation of state law. —Chalkbeat Indiana
- School districts across the nation continue to grapple with student chronic absenteeism, more than a year after the return to in-person learning. —Wall Street Journal
