The person had a 6 figure job with a BS and MS in statistics, and went back to get a PhD in Computer Science.
The person answered yes, but more for the intangibles.
My 2 cents:
If you want to teach College, you need a PhD. The key is you need to get a PhD from the right college and major, or you just wasted your time. Key things to look at are the drop out rate, hire rate, and expected salaries. From what I have read, there is a surplus of PhDs due to a system that has more supply, than demand.
Sad. It's hard to be a teacher in some schools / districts. I was a substitute teacher and I took whatever job was available, often at the worst schools in the districts I subbed at. It was a learning experience - which is why I made sure my daughter went to a different district...
The Principal from what I read only received minor injuries.
From 2014 - A Santa Monica Wrestling Teacher who was suspended, after he confronted a student who was drug dealing. Only after parent protests was he allowed back in the class room.
In the clip, filmed at Chicago
Vocational Career Academy in 2011, a student can been seen throwing
things at his teacher yelling 'sit your a** down' and threatening her.
I remember I class I took at Claremont, where you had to prepare a huge amount for the in class discussion. I found the class a lot of fun. Flipping is the idea watching lectures is done at home, and the actual interaction work, where an instructor had more value, is done in class. The challenge of so many classes, is the instructor is just repeating the same lecture again and again. What value does that have, vs. watching the same lecture on a video? Especially in a large lecture hall.
Great read to see how much the College experience is going to change soon. The $1 Trillion in students debt and with many private colleges charging $50,000 a year can't continue. After 4 years, that is $200,000 in costs! And this is charged by many 2nd and 3rd tier colleges for degrees who's worth is questionable!
The $10,000 college degree in Texas I also see as a game changes, and this is being looked into by other states such as Florida and Wisconsin. UC's are about $30,000 per year currently. Just think what you could do with all the money you save, if you could get a good education for $10,000. I feel sorry for the students graduating with huge amounts of debt, that have to put their lives on hold.
A good article to read. The part that caught my attention, was the ADD student with Anger issues. With mainstreaming being required by courts, its hard. Mainstreaming is where a special needs student is put in a regular class. Yes, this is often more fair to the special ed student, but then its often not fair to the other students in the class. And sometimes not even fair to the special ed student since they don't get as much attention as they need. The problem with the courts running education with many tiny narrow decisions, is it may make sense legally, but its often not what is best for students.
Seventy percent of students seeking degrees at two-year schools failed to obtain them or transfers to four-year universities within six years, the report says.
Singapore Math looks very good. I wish my daughter had been taught with it. The problem I see with Math in California is its very broad and shallow. Yes, they can claim that an amazing amount of stuff has been covered, but how well have the students learned it? The Singapore Math concept is go over fewer concepts, but more in depth.
Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
No, sorry, it was not a dinner of the China-India Friendship League. Give up?
O.K. All these kids are American high school students. They were the majority of the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, which, through a national contest, identifies and honors the top math and science high school students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems. The awards dinner was Tuesday, and, as you can see from the above list, most finalists hailed from immigrant families, largely from Asia.
An estimated 3 million jobless or underemployed college graduates in China, products of a mass social experiment by central planners to churn out more professionals for China's economic development. Nicknamed the Ant Tribe, after the title of a recent book documenting their struggles, they now constitute a vast army of educated young people whose growing restlessness worries the Chinese government.
There is a limit on what state control and direction can do. My thought what China needs to do is encourage entrepreneurship and increase intellectual property. The current system favors the families and businesses that are well connected.
Indian High School in Oakland has an API score of 967. There are only 3 schools in California with higher scores. My daughter's school has an API of 853. And Oakland is not the richest city in California.
UK Teacher who is being nominated for Teacher of the year there. Wonderful story, I like how she has a dog, yes a dog, in her class as a way to reach out to students. And how she painted the loos (water closets, oh American Term - Toilets) so change how people regarded them.
The quote " and got the boys to decorate the loos so that they were a source of pride rather than spaces associated with bullying"
Bathrooms in many K-12 schools I have been at are often dehumanizing. Concrete floors and look like something out of a prison. Some of them deliberately have no doors on the stalls (and this was a nicer High School/school district where I took my CBEST). A great way to find out about a company is by visiting their bathrooms, same thing with schools.
The blog post in Class Struggle points out that the very poor in China get a lousy education, and will actually use private schools due to cost issues.
I have no disagreement with that, what I do disagree with is the conclusion that this reflects education around the country. I have worked a lot with people from China and there are a lot of top schools that are producing excellent graduates. From reading in the comments there are private schools for the middle class and rich that are world class.
The challenge for the US is we have an excellent College System overall, but the quality of our K-12 really varies. In the High School I student taught at, the drop out rate was 60% which I view as a crime.
College Abruptly Moves Up Deadline for Applications
College Abruptly Moves Up Deadline for Applications - NY Times. California Cal States and UC's are having huge budget issues, so some of the Cal States have moved up with no warning their application date. Cal States do a great job of education and it's sad the Calfornia budget debacle is impacting them. Personally, they should be opening up more UC's and Cal States, especially with how much the population in California has increased. A UC Diamond Bar would be nice!
Education to me is key for getting ahead in our society, and I worry about schools that have 60% drop out rates. I did my student teaching in one, it was a great experience that has had a profound impact on me, but also sad in the students who drop out.
The problem I see with most school fund raisers is they don't raise much money. Our local school district is talking of budget cuts in the millions, and fund raisers if you are lucky bring in a couple of thousand dollars. Bake Sales a couple of hundred. Some school districts ask the parents to donate directly as this Steve Lopez of the LA Times wrote about Ponying up for a public education.
When I was in High School, I was selling waxless candles. They arrived late, and then delivering them to people and explaining they had ordered them was embarrassing. I had sold door to door and my neighborhood had many retired people on fixed incomes. After that, I refuse to sell anything that would embarrass me. That's probably one of the major reasons that I have a 100% return policy. If you don't like the Learning Chinese Products you bought, just return them. I appreciate if you don't take advantage of the policy (some people do unfortunately).
The big fund raiser at my daughter's school is Bingo every Saturday night, so I start my shift in a couple of hours.
