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Cheers and Jeers: May 23, 2024

The Education Gadfly
5.23.2024
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Cheers

  • Two students at a small, classical school, where boys sing the National Anthem for fun and phones are banned, made it into West Point. —Matthew Hennessey, Wall Street Journal
  • Indianapolis Public Schools will offer gifted classes in all middle schools and inform all parents about the offerings. —Chalkbeat
  • With thirteen schools already, The Native American Community Academy system of charter schools hopes to expand and bolster students’ traditional culture and language. —Hechinger Report

Jeers

  • Indianapolis Public Schools will also eliminate grades for homework and adopt soft-on-consequences discipline policies. —Chalkbeat
  • Connecticut’s new academic standards turned the climate alarmism up to eleven, mandating that schools incorporate lessons on climate change into nearly every subject in nearly every grade. —Paul Tice, Wall Street Journal
  • Students are arriving on campus less willing and less able to complete assigned readings. —Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Years after prosecution, families struggle to deal with the consequences of their legal troubles for forging addresses on school enrollment forms. —The 74
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