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There's a nationwide shortage of teachers, and in hundreds of school districts across

the U.S., remote teachers are being used more often to help fill gaps.

In past years, that may have been mainly to supplement course offerings.

Now, it's also for core subjects, fueling more debate about education, especially in

a post-pandemic landscape when many students are struggling with learning loss.

We spoke with two guests, one a proponent of virtual instruction, the other, critical

of it.

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Now here's Susan Moore Johnson, research professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

So let me jump in with some questions here.

Wanted to talk to you about some of these remote learning companies.

The school districts using these companies argue in part that a remote teacher is better

than no teacher.

That's kind of one of the arguments.

I mean, is that true?

Oh, that would be, I think, a far-reaching explanation.

It would be possible in a very specialized course that a remote teacher who is very solid

in subject and skilled at teaching remotely would be better than no one.

But the idea of having virtual teaching in standard subjects, I think, is really misguided.

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