Listen "#906: Does teacher licensing matter?, with Chad Aldeman"
Episode Synopsis
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 BoringDouglas Harris, “How free market logic fails in schooling—And what it means for the role of government,” Educational Researcher (December 2023).Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at [email protected].
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