EdNext Podcast: Derrell Bradford on How a Nationwide Teacher Strike Has Closed In-Person Public Schools

“Catholic schools have figured this out, parochial schools have figured this out. It’s amazing what masks and market pressure can do.”

Photo of Derrell BradfordThe executive vice president of 50Can, Derrell Bradford, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the ongoing school closures amid to Covid-19, and how this is essentially an extension of teacher union activism of the past few years.

Bradford’s blog post, “A Rolling National Teacher Strike Is Why Schools Are Closed,” is available now.

The EdNext Podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, Soundcloud, Stitcher and here every Wednesday.

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