Ensure build success with 2024.4

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@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-ARG BASE_CONTAINER=ghcr.io/ucsd-ets/datascience-notebook:2023.4-stable
+ARG BASE_CONTAINER=ghcr.io/ucsd-ets/datascience-notebook:2024.4-stable
 FROM $BASE_CONTAINER
 
 USER root
 
+# Currently, pandas 1.5.3 breaks nbgrader on JLab4 due to its reliance on an older version of
+# typing-extensions (4.1.1).
+# Wordcloud 1.8.1 does not support python 3.11.
+# We are removing nbgrader to avoid installing faulty extensions in JLab.
+
 RUN pip install coverage==5.5 && \
   pip install 'pandas>=0.24, <= 1.5.3' babypandas==0.1.9 pandas-tutor==2.0.3 && \
   pip install otter-grader==3.3.0 && \
-  pip install wordcloud==1.8.1
+  pip install wordcloud && \
+  pip uninstall nbgrader -y
+
 
 USER $NB_UID