Comments on: Billions of dollars in annual teacher training is largely a waste

By: Robert Sperry

Robert Sperry — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:32:53 +0000

Have you seen this? Roland Fryer: Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination These are the lecture slides. The best single statistic: if you adjust for 8th-grade test scores, wage inequality between whites and blacks in America drops from 28% to 0.6%. He covers many factors that do not help in education, masters degrees being one of them. Most importantly he covers some ground on what has been found to work.

By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:06:56 +0000

Of course they're a waste — for teachers! But they're not intended for teachers. For the politically well-connected leftists who get brought in to run these sessions, they're a meal ticket and a chance to inflict leftism to a captive audience. And that's their real function.

By: Joseph Moroco

Joseph Moroco — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:34:36 +0000

You either know the subject or you don’t. If you can diagram a sentence or understand axioms and theorems, you can probably teach it.

If you don’t know, the professional development ain’t gonna help.