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Scholars and “outreach”
This summer, the American Mathematical Society released an article arguing for mathematicians to focus only on academics and research while in graduate school and post-doc programs. Essentially, the idea is that outreach (defined in the article as increasing representation of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Higher education
Tagged 20% time, 80000 hours, Academia, American Mathematical Society, Graduate school, Outreach, post-doc, research, science
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Teacher effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
There is a very interesting new paper out from C. Kirabo Jackson of Northwestern University: Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina. He looked at LOTS of data and isolated two factors–which … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged algebra, C. Kirabo Jackson, demographics, English, non-cognitive, research, standardized testing, statistics, teacher evaluation, teacher quality
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Having New Eyes 