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Cheers and Jeers: March 30, 2023

The Education Gadfly
3.30.2023

Cheers

  • Long-time charter school leader Geoffrey Canada sounds the alarm on learning loss: “In my career of more than forty-five years, I’ve never seen anything like this.” —CBS News
  • “To retain the support of Black voters, Democrats must re-embrace charter schools.” —Markose Butler
  • The portfolio management model adopted by Denver Public Schools twenty years ago led to “huge academic growth.” —The 74
  • “DeSantis signs bill to expand [Florida’s] school choice program.” —RealClearFlorida

Jeers

  • Masterman—Philadelphia’s most prestiguous selective high school—is being “systematically dismantled” by abandoning selective admissions based on grades and switching to a lottery system. —George F. Will
  • “The percentages of nine- and thirteen-year-olds who said they read daily for fun [have] dropped by double digits since 1984.” —Atlantic
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