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Back to Episodes#906: Does teacher licensing matter?, with Chad Aldeman
Episode 906
Published 2 years, 9 months ago
Description
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Chad Aldeman, the founder of Read Not Guess and a columnist for The 74, joins Mike and David to discuss whether the pandemic-era waiving of teacher licensure rules affected student outcomes. Then, on the Research Minute, Adam Tyner reports on a new paper investigating if school choice can meet the conditions necessary for efficient market functioning.
Recommended content:
- “Emergency-hired teachers do just as well as those who go through normal training” —Chad Aldeman, The 74
- “The pandemic’s lesson on teacher licensure” —Matthew Yglesias, Slow Boring
- Douglas Harris, “How free market logic fails in schooling—And what it means for the role of government,” Educational Researcher (December 2023).
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