Friends, we have an awesome pod for you today! Mike and Glen debate whether teacher vaccinations should be part of the terms of employment, how one prominent political candidate believes that one teacher could teach 300-400 students at one time online and our guest this week is professor and author Jordan Shapiro.
Guest: Jordan Shapiro
Our guest is a father of two and stepfather of two more. He teaches in Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage program and is a senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He’s also a nonresident fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. His previous book, The New Childhood received critical acclaim, including from us, and has been published in eleven languages. This is his THIRD time joining us on the podcast.
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