The One About…
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Halls of Central High: Military veterans are ‘unqualified’ to be teachers. Just like everyone else.”
Robert Pondiscio’s article appeared in Commentary Magazine’s January 2023 issue on education. Pondiscio is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of How the Other Half Learns. For his full bio, see the website, AEI.org.
Join us as we discuss, among other things:
- Inadequate teacher training
- Cash-cow teacher education programs at universities
- Placing military veterans in classrooms to solve the teacher shortage.
Here’s a link to his article:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/robert-pondiscio/military-veterans-ed-school/
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Co-hosts Faith Borkowsky and Judy Boksner coach teachers, teach children to read, and hold master's degrees in education.
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