Cheers
- Survey results show that fewer than 8 percent of U.S. high school students have used e-cigarettes in the past month, down from 27 percent in 2019. —New York Times
- Fourteen states have joined onto an effort spearheaded by a bipartisan coalition to cut chronic absenteeism by half over a five-year period. —Chalkbeat
- Four and a half years after the start of the pandemic, it is time to start holding schools and students to higher standards again. —Lesley Muldoon, Hechinger Report
Jeers
- California has made data about its public school system impossible to locate and interpret, preventing parents from truly understanding how its institutions are faring. —CalMatters
- Many policymakers have pushed intensive tutoring as a solution to pandemic-induced learning loss, but a new study of a tutoring initiative in Nashville reveals that the impacts of such programs are much smaller than hoped. —Hechinger Report
