Cheers
- Billionaire Jeff Yass will cover this semester’s private school tuition fees for students impacted by the South Carolina Supreme Court’s rejection of the state’s voucher program. —South Carolina Daily Gazette
- Solutions for chronic absenteeism should consider communities’ specific attendance barriers, balance effectiveness with cost and ease of implementation, and be evaluated thoroughly. —Thomas S. Dee, Phi Delta Kappan
- Teacher contracts should increase educators’ compensation more strategically, as well as offer them more flexibility and overhaul “last in, first out” policies. —Karen Hawley Miles and David Rosenberg, Education Week
Jeers
- The Chicago Teachers Union convinced charter school educators to join, then used its funds and political influence to undermine the public school choice movement, ultimately leading to charter closures. —Jed Wallace, CharterFolk
- Unfortunately, education policy has shifted from an “eat-your-vegetables” approach that emphasized accountability and rigorous reform to a “sugar-frosted” approach that prioritizes issues that have more immediately visible benefits for various constituents. —Rick Hess, Education Next
- Today, just one in four American high-school seniors agree that their country is exceptional, compared to 67 percent in the early 1980s. —Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic
