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I think a bigger story should be as to why a public school district decided to pay someone $5000/hr for consulting.

Wonder if there were kickbacks involved, or just incompetence.

Businesses charge crazy amounts for running training. I've known significantly less credentialed people who in their 20's were being billed out at comparable rates, admittedly to the largest corps in the world - not a public school district. Also remember its $5000/hr for running a session, not for the development of it. It does seem high though.

It was slightly over $400/hr. The claim it was $5k/hr comes from the Berkeley guy who didn't include all the time she spent in his calculation. He either misunderstood or intentionally lied to make her look bad.

No, the document states, that she gets 5000$/hr: “for two Four hour sessions at the rate of 5.000.00 per hour for q a total of 40.000$“

The “four hour sessions” are a deliverable. There is no mention of how many hours went into preparing for them.

I was once paid 3,500 for a single 15 minute talk. It took me about 5 days to read various technical materials and condense them into an executive summary that could be delivered in 15 minutes. There were about 100 people in the audience. They got excellent value for money and I got paid reasonably for my research.

Yes, it’s $5,000 per hour, but that hour reflects a significant amount of time and work behind the scenes.

Looks like Professor Boaler just created an HN account.

How do you know she spent any time at all? Do you happen to have first hand knowledge?

The Berkeley guy volunteers for free, just for the record.

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