CHEERS
A new pilot program will help states share data with the Pentagon, looking at both enlistment and persistence to understand long-term outcomes for students who join the military. —Evie Blad, Education Week
JEERS
Here’s a distressing sign of the times: “Saul Malek tours the country as a cautionary tale for kids. In a previous era, he might have been a reformed drug addict or drunken driver. But Malek, 28, showed up at an all-boys private school in Cleveland last month as a human billboard warning of the newest vice tempting America’s youth: online gambling.” —Suzy Khimm, NBC News
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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