One passage in chapter eight of Naked Economics that really stood out to me was the fact that for teachers, certification requirements have no correlation with the performance in the classroom. Wheelan went onto give an example of this from Los Angeles, California. His example was that the state of California made a law to reduce class sizes, probably so students could get more one on one time with the teacher to help the student learn. When they did this though, schools were forced into hiring many, many new teachers some uncertified. The school then used data from this to figure out if it was a good change. They found out that it really does matter if you have a good teacher, and that certification doesn't matter.
This really stood out to me because I thought the results/data would be different. I thought it would've turned out that uncertified teachers would be equivalent to a bad teacher, not because they're dumb or don't know the material, but because they hadn't gone through the specific training for teaching. This passage in chapter eight of Naked Economics surprised me and interested me to learn more about the schools thinking and kind of the idea of hiring a ton more unqualified people to do the job just as well, which I was unaware of previously reading this chapter.
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