From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

A woman is a female, which means that she is a life giver of the body, soul, and spirit.

We are to be a voice for the vulnerable, and we are the guardian, the spiritual guardian of the home and of the family.

This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the radio-free Hillsdale Hour, part of the

Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Jennifer Strickland. She's the founder of You

Are More, a former model, and the author of the new book, I Am a Woman, Taking Back

Our Name. We'll talk in depth with Jennifer about that book later on in today's program. First,

we're joined by Dr. Jonathan Gregg. He is assistant professor of education here at Hillsdale

College. Dr. Greg, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Talking about a recent essay published

at Real Clear Education, something you co-wrote with Sarah Bess Kennedy, who is a graduate of the

Masters of Classical Education program here at Hillsdale College. We begin by discussing about

how does someone become a teacher? It varies from location to location, state to state, but how does someone become a teacher? It varies from location to location state to state,

but how does someone become a teacher? How do we certify that someone is a teacher? It's a great

question, especially it's an even more important question recently with the nationwide teacher

shortage that we have. A recent USA Today piece said that 86% of public

schools are experiencing a teacher shortage right now. And so there's need, in my opinion,

for some new pathways into education. Since the late 1800s, it's been, I would say, a pretty

heavily gate-kept profession where teacher

certification, which you get from most of the time or usually a four-year degree at an

education school somewhere in the country is the only real pathway into the classroom. And so,

it's been the case that if you want to be a teacher,

you've got to go get certified. And it's starting to move, there's starting to be some

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