#885: Virtual teachers are back, with Linda Jacobson
Aug 30, 2023•23 min•Ep. 885
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Episode description
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Linda Jacobson, a senior writer at The 74, joins Mike to discuss why more students are attending in-person classes with a virtual teacher. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses a new study on the minimally positive effect of summer school interventions designed to mitigate pandemic learning loss.
Recommended content:
- “Exclusive data: Fueled by teacher shortages, ‘Zoom-in-a-room’ makes a comeback” —Linda Jacobson
- “Welcome back to school. Your teacher is 2000 miles away.” —Wall Street Journal
- Ian Callen et al., “Summer school as a learning loss recovery strategy after COVID-19: Evidence from summer 2022,” National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (August 2023).
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