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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Back to school with Nashville's teachers
Description: It’s back-to-school season! Big box stores have put out special school supplies displays, and the airwaves are full of commercials for backpacks, clothes and markers.
It’s a pretty familiar phenomenon, but it’s also impossible to deny that a lot has changed about education over the past few years, from the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic to new laws that impact what can be taught in the classroom. What is this time of year — this year — like for Middle Tennessee’s teachers? To learn more, we're joined by educators and MNPS officials.
But first, we'll...