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Cheers and Jeers: September 9, 2021

The Education Gadfly
9.9.2021

Cheers

  • Stop ignoring the science: We can’t teach reading or close racial reading disparities without phonics. —John McWhorter
  • Jay Miller: Let’s dismantle the union-controlled Milwaukee School Board and install transformative experts to effect real change for students. —Journal-Sentinel (Wisconsin)
  • Central Falls District in Rhode Island created a Teaching Fellowship to solve their substitute teacher crisis and recruit from within the community. —Education Week
  • The claim that learning loss is a myth or a racist notion is absurd. —LA Times

Jeers

  • “Attack ad revives charter schools as political issue in Boston’s mayoral race.” —GBH News
  • New York City’s Department of Education wants to drop the honor roll and other markers of excellence, which will only hurt the underprivileged kids that most benefit from them. —New York Post
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