Cheers
- California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond apologized for withholding relief funds from private and parochial schools. —EdSource
- It’s not enough to defend gifted education. We need to advance an agenda for excellence. —Rick Hess
Jeers
- “New curriculum review gives failing marks to two popular reading programs.” —Education Week
- In California, “faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading.” —LA Times
