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Cheers and Jeers: July 18, 2024

The Education Gadfly
7.18.2024
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Cheers

  • Rochester schools to reintroduce F’s after lenient grading policies encouraged many students to slack off. —Star Tribune
  • Where previous reformers saw their policies rolled back, Superintendent Mike Miles is hoping to implement long-lasting improvements in Houston ISD. —Robert Pondiscio, Education Next
  • Charter schools now make up the majority of the most rigorous high schools in the nation, as measured by the number students to take college-level exams. —Jay Mathews, Washington Post
  • Young people should foster and follow their talents, not their passions. —Scott Galloway, Time
  • “NY students banned from using phones first hated, then loved it.” —Bloomberg

Jeers

  • Dubious questions about how the science of reading informs English language instruction have stymied the movement in California, Massachusetts, and New York City. —The Grade
  • Once the leader in education, Massachusetts has placed its much-lauded graduation exam on the ballot this fall. —The 74
  • Despite paying lip service to vouchers during his campaign, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro let a school choice bill die for the second year in a row. —Wall Street Journal
Tags: California English Houston Independent School District Jay Mathews Massachusetts Mike Miles New York Pennsylvania
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