#885: Virtual teachers are back, with Linda Jacobson

<p>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Linda Jacobson, a senior writer at <em>The 74</em>, 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.</p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li>“Exclusive data: Fueled by teacher shortages, ‘Zoom-in-a-room’ makes a comeback” —<a href='https://www.the74million.org/article/happening-all-over-for-many-students-zoom-in-a-room-never-ended/'>Linda Jacobson</a></li><li>“Welcome back to school. Your teacher is 2000 miles away.” —<a href='https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/welcome-back-to-school-your-teacher-is-2-000-miles-away-fee6750a'>Wall Street Journal</a></li><li>Ian Callen et al., “<a href='https://caldercenter.org/publications/summer-school-learning-loss-recovery-strategy-after-covid-19-evidence-summer-2022'>Summer school as a learning loss recovery strategy after COVID-19: Evidence from summer 2022</a>,” <em>National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research </em>(August 2023).</li></ul><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b> Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at <a href='mailto:dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org'>dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p>