Elizabeth Green on Education and Building a Better Teacher

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🗓️ 15 September 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Elizabeth Green, author of the new book Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach it to Anyone), talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the art of teaching and the history of various reforms, mostly failed, trying to improve teaching in America. Specific topics include the theoretical focus of undergraduate education programs and various techniques being used in charter schools and elsewhere to improve teaching performance.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:23.1	going back to 2006.
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0:32.0	Today is September the 2nd, 2014, and my guest is Elizabeth Green.
0:38.1	She is the author of Building a Better Teacher, How Teaching Works and How to Teach It to
0:42.6	Everyone.
0:43.6	Elizabeth, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:44.9	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:47.3	Your book's a history of the recent attempts to improve K-12 Education in America.
0:52.4	Let's start with the basic question.
0:53.9	Is it possible to build a better teacher?
0:57.8	I think it is.
0:59.6	I think it's possible.
1:01.2	I think that the history of education would tell you perhaps otherwise because we have
1:07.5	had so much trouble being teaching change over time, but I think that there are enough
1:13.8	cases and evidence to suggest that it is possible to help people do this better and improve.
1:22.2	There is a view out there that you talk about it at some length in the book that some
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