Isabelle Galmiche, a 50-year-old math teacher and part-time auto racer, won the World Rally Championship's Monte Carlo Rally as co-driver to Sebastien Loeb this past weekend. With the win, the Frenchwoman became the first female to score points in the series since 1997, while her compatriot Loeb, 47, set a record as the oldest driver to win a world championship round. It was also Loeb's record...
Does teacher training actually work? Apparently not
From American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program Despite massive investments in teacher professional development (PD) programs in developing countries, there is little evidence on their effectiveness. We present results of a large-scale, randomized evaluation of a...
Almost a quarter-million teachers physically attacked in public schools
A record 220,300 public school teachers reported that they were physically attacked by a student during the 2015-2016 school year, according to a report jointly published this month by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The data for 2015-16 comes from the NCES’s National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS). The data for previous school years going...
Teachers don’t find educational research relevant
Depressing but not surprising. From the Director of IES: For starters, many teachers view research as a search for bright shiny objects pushed by administrators without adequate attention to the needs and skills of teachers. Many told us they felt that their professional knowledge is all too often neglected in education research and, to use a common phrasing, that research was “done to them not...
Turns out the Japanese have rubber rooms, too
But only for their salarymen:
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