COVID-19 upends classrooms and fewer people study to become teachers, but the Class of 2020 can’t wait to start MarketWatch 1/18/2021 DISPATCHES FROM A PANDEMIC In early 2020, John Larson, the president of Oregon Education Association, the state’s teacher’s union, was preparing to head to Minneapolis for a national conference on what he and fellow teacher advocates were worried was becoming, as Larson put it, a “crisis:” Too few teachers to meet the needs of the nation’s schools. Popular Searches “We were going to meet and start talking about strategies for encouraging peopl...