Sentences with phrase «aft studies»

Making Standards Matter, 2001 is the sixth in a series of AFT studies commenting on the progress of the standards movement.

In fact, the AFT study finds «general funding comparability,» even though charter schools receive less funding for facilities.

Miss Hoxby, an expert on the economics of school choice with the National Bureau of Economic Research, said the AFT study was «junk research» and «misleading.»

The AFT study looked at reading and math scores from the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

She used standardized test results from 99 percent of the nation's charter schools, while the AFT study that prompted hers surveyed similar results from only 3 percent of charter schools.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.

The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.

In a Sept. 18 article in the Washington Times, Hoxby called the AFT study «junk research» and «misleading.»

Not exact matches

In fact, in a 2012 study of 500 new teachers by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), respondents said that their training was too theoretical and didn't prepare them for teaching «in the real world.»

An AFT committee is studying the performance - pay issue and plans to release a report in the spring.

A recent study conducted by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the world's largest teacher unions, found that many U.S. school districts routinely practice social promotion, despite public policies — and sometimes laws — meant to prevent it.

CREDO found that non-profit schools made much larger test gains than for - profit ones, prompting AFT president Randi Weingarten to thunder «this CREDO study confirms that for - profit charter and virtual schools serve the interests of corporations» rather than kids.

Consider the AFT's recently released «study» of charter schools, Do Charter Schools Measure Up?

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

As a result, the studies cited by the AFT compare many charter schools in their first or second year with district schools with decades of experience and deep pockets behind them.

Many studies, including the AFT one, are inherently suspect, inasmuch as they look only at student achievement levels at a single point in time, thereby telling us little or nothing about how much pupils are learning.

Beginning with the New York Times's front - page splash about an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study in August of 2004 («Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test scores.

In this 2002 report, and even prior to more recent studies like the 2004 LAO report, which called charter schools «a viable reform strategy,» the AFT demanded a halt to new charter schools «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness or viability is presented.»

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

The problem with the AFT's new study lies in the context it neglected to provide and the data it chose to emphasize.

A member of the national American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Program and Policy Council, she has served on AFT committees studying and recommending policy on various topics, including high school reform, teacher evaluation, and Common Core state standards.

The AFT intentionally ignores what 90 percent of the nearly 100 studies of charter schools have found, that charter schools are more effective and efficient than traditional public schools.

Last but not least — in light of the new AFT and Badass Teachers study of US teachers, i.e. the Quality of Work Life Survey, I asked my Top Global Teacher Bloggers, «What are the quick ways to combat teacher stress in a classroom?»

Though this report is superior to AFT's study, its results are dominated by a large number of students who are in their first year at a charter school and a large number of charter schools that are in their first year of operation.

Instead of taking seriously these high quality studies, charter critics rely heavily on a report released in 2004 by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

But the researchers — William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West — reported that AFT's study wasn't rigorous enough in its analysis.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.

In the UK, family therapists who have completed a four - year qualifying programme of study (MSc) are eligible to register with the professional body the Association of Family Therapy (AFT), and with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).