The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation spent 10 years and $575 million on a program aimed at improving teacher effectiveness and increasing student achievement. The result after a decade and all that money? Complete failure. So, what did the program look like, and what went wrong? Essentially, the Gates Foundation provided funding to three schools, […]
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The Biggest Misconception in Pedagogy
I’m standing in front of my lab assistant who’s visibly angry with me: „They don’t know the basics of the for loop! If you taught them, they would know!“ Never mind that half of the group truly understands those basics and that the entire last group had no problems with their assignments, but if one […]