Saturday, August 20th, 2022
Special Edition: Back to School - Teacher Shortages & Student Learning
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Research shows many students are struggling to catch up after two years of interruptions to their learning. A new report shows kids will need to learn at a faster pace this year to catch up to where they should be academically. That’s based on math and reading scores from millions of elementary and middle school students across the United States.
We’re speaking with one of the report’s authors, Dr. Karyn Lewis. She’s the director of the Center for School and Student Progress at the research-based nonprofit organization NWEA.
Then later, we’ll speak with the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. She explains where and why teacher shortages are happening across the United States and what can be done about it.
NWEA report on student achievement in 2021-2022.
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Guest: Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.
Prior to her election as AFT president in 2008, Weingarten served for 11 years as president of the United Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2, representing approximately 200,000 educators in the New York City public school system, as well as home child care providers and other workers in health, law and education.
Weingarten holds degrees from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cardozo School of Law. She is an active member of the Democratic National Committee and numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations.
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Guest: Karyn Lewis
Karyn Lewis is director of the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA where she leads a team of researchers who operate at the intersection of K-12 education research, practice, and policy.
Her research interests focus on the interplay between students’ academic achievement and growth, their social-emotional development and well-being, and how they experience their school’s climate.
Dr. Lewis is a former Data Fellow with the Strategic Data Project at the Harvard Center for Education Policy Research. She completed a National Science Foundation-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in social psychology.
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