The author didn’t say so, the employees themselves did! ‘Hosts of new provosts, vice chancellors, deans and deanlets’ A professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics wanted to know which jobs are the most pointless, from the job-holders themselves. David Graeber spent the past year asking people to “send me accounts of their most useless occupations,” in response to surveys that find a third or more of workers in rich countries “are secretly convinced their jobs

Public schools are hiring — but most new staff aren’t classroom teachers, concludes a new EdChoice report. “Non-teachers have been hired at an alarmingly high rate,” said the report’s author, Ben Scafidi, a professor of economics and director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University. Between 1950 and 2015, the number of full-time teachers increased nearly two and a half times as quickly as the increase in students, which reduced class sizes significantly