Cheers
- “How this after-school program achieved a high vaccination rate in a Black neighborhood where most young adults are unvaccinated.” —Washington Post
- D.C.’s teacher evaluation system is retaining teachers, raising starting salaries above those of all fifty states, and helping improve NAEP scores. The charge that it’s racially biased is unfounded. —Matthew Yglesias
- Schools across the nation saw record attendance in summer school as they approached it with a new goal: reminding students that in-person learning can be fun. —Washington Post
Jeers
- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has reversed course after initially supporting a school policy that used testing instead of immediate quarantines in order to minimize student absences. —Philadelphia Inquirer
- Cecily Myart-Cruz, head of the L.A. teachers’ union, bafflingly suggests that “learning loss” is a fake crisis propagated by assessment purveyors and dismisses parent demands for reopening as “unexamined privilege” as she resists returns to in-person learning. —Los Angeles Magazine
- Devotees of the conspiracy movement QAnon want to run for school boards to combat mask mandates and fight culture wars. —NBC News
