On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Chad Aldeman, the founder of Read Not Guess and a columnist for The 74, joins Mike to discuss how the end of COVID relief funds could cause a wave of teacher layoffs. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a new study investigating whether schools gamed their academic gains during No Child Left Behind.

Recommended content:

• “Schools could lose 136,000 teaching jobs when federal COVID funds run out” —Chad Aldeman, The 74
• “Fiscal cliff could force layoffs of the best teachers” —Michael Petrilli, Education Next
• John Gregg and Stéphane Lavertu, “Test-based accountability and educational equity: Breaking through local district politics?” Economics of Education Review (December 2023).

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