Cheers
- The College Board is responding to rising student disengagement by extending the AP model to CTE courses and deploying a new tool that maps out career interests for students based on their SAT scores. —EducationWeek
- To help win over independent male voters and recenter a race increasingly divided along gender lines, Kamala Harris should bring attention to the pressing issue of boys falling dangerously behind in K–12 schools. —Richard Whitmire, The 74
Jeers
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to address the city school district’s debt by taking out a $284 million loan fails to solve any of the district’s actual budget problems: high salaries, overinflated staffing, declining enrollment, rising pension costs, and the end of pandemic funding. —Chad Aldeman, The 74
- Four-year college enrollment declined this year for the first time since the pandemic, possibly due to larger numbers of students choosing instead to enroll in lower-quality community colleges as a result of FAFSA delays and glitches earlier this year. —The Washington Post
