"Hey Sterlace why don't you have a PhD? Why don't you get a PhD?" Almost every person I know who has been in a PhD program talks about how terrible the experience was. No, thanks.
New data on PhD student mental health: "By the 5th year of studies, the likelihood that PhD candidates needed mental-health medications had increased by 40%, compared with the year before study" This is why, when giving advice to students, I always mention self care www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on.
I notice that when I call static friction "traction" my students immediately understand the difference between static and kinetic friction and why rolling requires static friction. 🎢
What % of Musk's tweets are "Yeah"?
Only 1/3 of all people teaching at least one high school physics class have a degree in physics or physics education. A lot of high school physics teachers are teachers in another STEM field who are asked to pick up 1-2 physics classes. Sorry to get off topic. The original question is interesting.
About 1/3 high school graduates in the USA take physics, compared with 70% and 96% for chemistry and biology, respectively files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1...
I hadn't until just now, thanks
The Department of Physics & Astronomy at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia is searching for a new department head. For details, please see: jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/academi...#iteachphysics
Working Title: Academic Unit Head, Physics & Astronomy State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time College/Division: College of Science and ...
If you haven't happened upon this thread on your own, please let me direct you to it. Start with the post I'm sharing, and keep going until you hit: "we don’t get a world-class education system by pretending teacher pay doesn’t matter."
That's not what anonymously means. Also, this is outrageous.
