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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19
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Teachers and their labor have been one of the most contentious subjects of the COVID era, as the nation’s papers of record (and even some supposedly progressive publications) scolded teachers to get back into the physical classroom and blamed them for everything that could possibly go wrong with children. Around the country, teachers have been quitting, retiring, and finding ways to resist, and now we have a strike in a big urban school district—the first teachers’ and education workers strike in Minneapolis in fifty years, as the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers...