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Sept. 1, 2022
Kevin Carey was quoted in an article by CNN Politics about the difficulties faced by teachers and students in America.
This newsletter is not supposed to be focused on education, but so many of our recent editions -- about teacher strikes, a teacher shortage, politics in the classroom, student loan debt -- have fallen into that space.
An old problem reaching crisis point.
That teachers are leaving and few people want to join the field are also problems that predate the pandemic but were supercharged during the past two years. CNN's Christina Maxouris and Christina Zdanowicz wrote about it in-depth earlier this year.
"Certainly something that everyone who is engaged in education agrees on is that it has been an extraordinarily difficult last three years to be a public school teacher," Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy at New America, told me.
"The pandemic was a real body blow to the whole education system," he said. "I think everything we know about learning tells us that it really requires a consistency and momentum and anything that interrupts that has long-term consequences."
Read the full article here