Sentences with phrase «aft movement,4»

The AFT uses data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which contain information on about 30,000 job offers, not 2,600 as Podgursky reported, to update a 30 - year time series for the earnings of new college graduates who found full - time jobs in the private sector.

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.

Randi Weingarten is the President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which represents educators and healthcare professionals to make sure that fairness and democracy prevails.

The AFT report concludes: Children can achieve when they are taught the basics early; when they are challenged by high standards and a rich curriculum; and when caring, firm adults pay strict attention to the quality of students» work and behavior.

The AFT has worked with the business community in the past, and is interested in the NEA recruitment proposal, Jamie Horwitz, an AFT spokesman, told Education World.

The AFT report points out that, for much of the 20th century, school districts have alternately embraced and abandoned two responses to student failure — social promotion and retention.

Both the NEA and the AFT support so - called professionalization agendas that aim to make the route into teaching look more like the routes into the legal and medical professions.

Or a copy of the report might be ordered for $ 5.00 prepaid from the AFT Order Department, 555 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.

Teachers» unions are split: Some local groups, including the Chicago Teachers Union and the New York State United Teachers, oppose the new standards entirely, while the two national unions — the National Educators Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-- support the Core but want delays in implementation.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has made standards the key to its quality - schools strategy.

Michael Podgursky responds: Collective - bargaining agreements negotiated by the AFT in large urban districts typically include language restricting the contractual teaching workday to little longer than the school day for students.

The smaller American Federation of Teachers (aft) plans to distribute about $ 500,000 to Congressional candidates, compared...

Second, the AFT does not believe that parental satisfaction surveys are a substitute for student achievement.

The AFT seems to have misinterpreted my own work.

This could be lousy news for the AFT and NEA, both of which have opted to throw their full weight behind Hillary — except that her main challenger is coming from the pro-union left.

CAP and the AFT once shared this hope.

The two unions, the NEA and the AFT, are without question the most politically potent trade unions in the United States.

Fortunately, AFT and CAP have already told us why this is a bad idea.

«Politicians who have declared the public schools a «disaster» are out of sync with the American people,» said Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in a written statement.

AFT and CAP pitch their proposal as targeting interventions to schools with large achievement gaps.

Further belying the AFT's logic is the fact that 18 percent of Dayton public school children now attend charters, about 15 times the national average.

Our earnest Secretary of Education, along with AFT chief Randi Weingarten and NEA honcho Dennis Van Roekel, grandly made this announcement down in Tampa.

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

The AFT represents more than 1 million teachers and other school - related personnel.

But under the CAP / AFT proposal, a school's 5th grade African - American, ELL, or SWD groups could be too small to meet the minimum n - size and the whole school's disadvantaged students could go uncounted.

Would the AFT agree that charter growth should slow only when they enroll 18 percent of American public school students?

In 1996, only three states had promotion policies based on standardized tests; in 1999, 13 states had such policies, according to Making Standards Matter 1999: Executive Summary, an annual report by the AFT.

The AFT report states that charter schools do spend less money than other public schools.

None of this mentions the work of the AFT, National Education Association, national foundations, teacher preparation institutions, assessment consortia (Smarter Balanced and PARCC), or other groups with a stake in the successful implementation of the Common Core.

The U.S. Department of Education is partnering with the NEA, the AFT, Teach for America, Microsoft, and other organizations to launch a public service campaign aimed at attracting high - achieving college graduates to a career in teaching.

It may be coincidence, but in the midst of this very public debacle, several national AFT leaders were quietly involved with the negotiations between Baltimore City Schools and the local union which resulted in the just announced path - breaking new pay - for - performance contract that will replace the so - called «steps» and «lanes» of the traditional teacher contract.

The AFT's Weil expressed strong concern that the goals of evaluation reform — improving teacher practice and student learning — have gotten lost in the technicalities of developing algorithms and rubrics and the speed with which these systems are being implemented.

Just as Delaware was releasing its report, Fordham's hosted a panel discussion, Traversing the Teacher - Evaluation Terrain, with four experts to discuss developments in the world of educator - evaluation reform: Sandi Jacobs of NCTQ, Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus, Chet Linton of the School Improvement Network, and Rob Weil of the AFT.

The settlement ends a dispute that began in 2002, when teacher Nathan Saunders II filed a federal lawsuit against former top union officials, the union's former board of trustees, the AFT, and a local bank.

But Maranto and the AFT agree on a number of points:

But the foundation has also given $ 4 million to the AFT and $ 500,000 to the NEA to fund similar projects.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

«We were supportive of the Louisiana legislation,» said Jamie Horwitz, speaking for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which supports standards testing.

The AFT supports Louisiana's policy to end social promotion.

Moreover, this is exactly the kind of policy the AFT previously opposed for teacher evaluations.

Meanwhile, with Clinton aligned with the NEA and AFT, Sanders and O'Malley running to her left, and Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee barely in evidence, it's not clear that anyone will be flying the «Democrats for Education Reform» flag (except possibly Biden, if he gets in).

And legislative and campaign spending is not the only thing teachers unions are spending their money on; both NEA and AFT send additional millions to advocacy groups, community organizations, and charities.

In Ed Week, Stephen Sawchuk looks at how the NEA and the AFT are responding to the reforms being advanced by the Obama administration, and at what might explain the different responses from the two unions.

Both Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Dennis Van Roekel, president of the larger National Education Association (NEA), recognize the threat.

In fact, foundation president Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote that the AFT's report «reeks of error, distortion, and untruth about charter schools.»

Robert Maranto responds: Alas, the AFT still seems to be spinning the facts.

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

The AFT has released excerpts from a revamped version of the Democratic Party platform.

Contact: Bruce Goldberg or Marcia Levine, aft, 555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001; [phone] and [phone], respectively.

I've published an annotated version of the AFT press release on the Bellwether site, or you can find the original version without our notes here (pdf).