This week's Patreon-exclusive episode is a deep dive into the de-professionalization of teaching, beginning with a careful examination of three Wall Street Journal pieces that came out within a week of each other, proceeding to a history lesson on the early days of the common schools movement, and wrapping up with some personal anecdotes.

Join us at patreon.com/professionaldevelopment to hear the full thing.

For further viewing/reading see:

>>https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/google-news-update/why-teachers-are-dropping-out-of-the-profession/f7748d44-e224-423b-b975-afe1c6b5c82c

>>https://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-are-quitting-and-companies-are-hot-to-hire-them-11643634181

>>https://www.wsj.com/articles/burnout-drove-these-teachers-into-new-careers-heres-how-they-got-there-11644143400

​​>>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/01/masks-schools-koch-money/

>>https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

>>Goldstein, Dana. (2014). The teacher wars : a history of America's most embattled profession. New York: Doubleday.