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Cheers and Jeers: September 19, 2024

The Education Gadfly
9.19.2024
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Cheers

  • More high school students are participating in school-sponsored sports than ever before, driven in part by the increasing popularity of girls’ flag football. —K–12 Dive
  • “Parents should ignore their children more often.” —Darby Saxbe, New York Times
  • District leaders backed off of policy changes that would have altered admissions criteria and funding for selective enrollment, magnet, and charter schools in their five-year plan for Chicago Public Schools. —WBEZ
  • “State superintendent doesn’t want Alabama students forced down one diploma path.” —The 74

Jeers

  • A divided South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the state’s voucher program violates its constitution. —The State
  • Test scores reveal that middle schoolers are still lagging months behind pre-pandemic achievement levels in science. —The 74
  • Fewer teachers are assigning full-length novels to their students, likely due to “perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests, and a sense that short-form content will prepare students for the modern, digital world.” —The Washington Post
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