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Cheers and Jeers: March 7, 2024

The Education Gadfly
3.7.2024
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Cheers

  • Education needs a broad, anti-AI cheating effort akin to the anti-doping movement in sports. —Noor Akbari, Education Week
  • The Tennessee Board of Education approved a resolution asking elected officials to implement reading retention policies as early as kindergarten. —Chalkbeat
  • Florida’s House of Representatives voted to maintain their English 10 and Algebra 1 exams as prerequisites for a high school diploma. —The 74
  • A new report finds that almost half of new suburban schools in the largest 25 metro areas were charter schools. —Education Week

Jeers

  • Nevada tested AI software to allocate state aid based on achievement instead of poverty levels, thereby penalizing schools with low income but high achieving students. —Education Week
  • “Former Department of Education employees accused of defrauding Arizona voucher program” —AZ Central
  • Pervasive mental health interventions could be doing more harm than good in American schools. —Abigail Shrier, The Free Press
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