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MetLife Survey of the American Teacher Data from the just - released 2011 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher (PDF) now confirm what the education community has suspected: teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades.

Not exact matches

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

The data come from the 2013 Education Next Survey, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 5,000 members of the adult population including oversamples of teachers, parents, African Americans and Hispanics.

In fact, seven teachers, backed by the Houston branch of the American Federation of Teachers, have sued over using test data in evalteachers, backed by the Houston branch of the American Federation of Teachers, have sued over using test data in evalTeachers, have sued over using test data in evaluations.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recognizes appropriate and inappropriate duties, which can be a challenge for those in school systems that use their school counselors as data entry clerks, testing coordinators, substitutes for classroom teachers, record keepers, or in disciplinary roles.

Combine NAEP data with a recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) study on what social studies teachers think and do.

American schools already have achievement data for every child starting in third grade — and universal screening yields a more diverse population of «gifted» students than waiting for teacher recommendations and pushy parents.

In 1999, Jay Chambers of the American Institutes for Research merged unique state - level databases containing information on teacher salaries, teacher course assignments, and course enrollment data to calculate per - pupil expenditures by course for students in Ohio.

American teachers are the most productive among major developed countries, according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data from 2008 — the most recent available.

While states received points (40 out of 500) for «adopting a common set of high quality standards,» strictly speaking there were only two eligibility requirements (i.e., what a state had to do in order to be eligible to apply and receive funds): (1) an approved plan for distributing funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and (2) no legal or regulatory barriers to linking student - level data and individual teachers.

In 2012, the Center for American Progress issued its «Unequal Education» report, which analyzed the first wave of DOE per - school expenditure data that included actual teacher salaries.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalTeachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalteachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

About 60 percent of teachers and an equal proportion of other Americans say they are opposed to legalized abortion.Analysis of the survey data show class, gender, and education are all positively correlated with being in favor of legalized abortion.

Given Project STAR's limited number of Hispanic, Asian, and Native American participants, I edited these data to include only those observations from black and white non-Hispanic students with black and white non-Hispanic teachers.

Looking at the data across the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, we find that teachers are about 9 to 11 percentage points more likely than other Americans as a whole to pray one or more times per day.

If we look at the data from all of the years the question has been asked, 1985 - 2002, we find that about 69 percent of teachers believe the world is more good than evil, compared to about 53 percent of other Americans.

According to the NORC survey data from the current decade, about 37 percent of teachers say they attend church one or more times per week, while 26 percent of other Americans say they do so.

Combining the data for the entire four - decade period, we find that about 71 percent of teachers have supported the free - speech rights of these four types, while only about 58 percent of other Americans have.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Teacher pension plans are already in bed with Wall Street; the «retirement security crisis» narrative ignores data showing that elderly Americans are doing better and better; today's defined benefit pension plans just don't work that well for most teachers; and the costs of today's pension plans are enormous and are affecting schools and other public services.

But Richard C. Iannuzzi, the president of the 600,000 - member New York State United Teachers, which is affiliated with both the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers, said a special session or other legislative action isn't necessary because, in his view, New York does not have a data firewall.

The data about our programs, in conjunction with information from organizations such as the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ensures our programs are current with changes and recommendations in the field.

What's clear from this data is over the last 10 years or so with the recession, if you look at every one of these cities, there's a loss of teachers — but African Americans are bearing a hugely disproportionate share of the loss.»

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own puteachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own puTeachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Hoyt also cited a recent policy statement by the American Educational Research Association that cautions against using value - added data in teacher evaluations and for high - stakes purposes.

The study by the Albert Shanker Institute, a think tank funded by the American Federation of Teachers, looked at teacher data from nine cities: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C..

For the first time in the history of American public education, federal education policy set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, and finally focused attention on using data in measuring teacher quality.

Howard Nelson, a lead researcher at the American Federation of Teachers, said the new study is based on the most current and comprehensive national data available.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, does not oppose the use of value - added data but wants to ensure evaluations are based on «classroom observations, self - evaluations, portfolios, appraisal of lesson plans, students» written work» as well.

In this month's issue brief from Core Education, we explore the data to offer a profile of the American teacher.

Explicit modeling of geospatial data exploration is provided in the teacher guide to show how to use the Web GIS to identify the adjacent plates next to the North American plate.

Oregon, Michigan, Kansas, and New York State have gained waivers without either having put their teacher evaluation plans in place or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage; this leaves the possibility that the plans will be scuttled by opposition from National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates generally opposed to using objective student performance data in performance reviews.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

As Michael J. Schmoker notes in his 2006 analysis of the American educational system, Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning, providing teachers with time to meet regularly to carefully examine assessment data, set goals, share and create lessons, develop common formative assessments, and review student work will ultimately lead to a better end result.

To determine how exposure to a black teacher impacts black students, the researchers — including Lindsay, Seth Gershenson of American University, Cassandra Hart of the University of California Davis, and Nicholas Papageorge of Johns Hopkins University — used an extensive data set from the early 2000s in North Carolina.

The roster included representatives from the Data Quality Campaign, the National Center for Learning Disabilities, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and AASA, the School Superintendents Organization, among others.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, doesn't oppose the use of value - added data but wants to ensure evaluations are based on «classroom observations, self - evaluations, portfolios, appraisal of lesson plans, students» written work» as well.

Let's be clear: The need for rigorous, college - preparatory curricula with strong content is as critical an element in reforming American public education as advancing standards and accountability, overhauling teacher quality, expanding school choice, bolstering Parent Power, improving school leadership and building robust data systems.

Overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), in partnership with the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) hosted a learning exchange in Nashville, Tennessee entitled, «Navigating the Intersection of Teacher Effectiveness Policies and State Data Capacity.»

The teacher turnover data, highlighted in a new study published in the American Educational Research Journal, spark a continuing national debate about whether alternative certification programs provide enough support and training to foster teachers.

In a memo last month to LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines, a human resources officer said recruiting diverse teacher candidates from colleges and universities around California «will continue to be a challenge especially as Latino and African American college graduate data remain unrepresented.»

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights data collection, Black, Latino, American Indian, and Alaska Native students are more likely to attend schools with high concentrations of inexperienced teachers.

«The fixation on testing and data over everything else is a fundamental flaw in how our nation approaches public education,» wrote Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in a Huffington Post blog entry.

MetLife Foundation made the project possible — and recently, the 2007 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher came out with new data on «the homework experience,» a crucial middle - school issue.

I have reviewed the next of nine articles (# 3 of 9) here, titled «Exploring the Potential of Value - Added Performance Measures to Affect the Quality of the Teacher Workforce» as authored by Dan Goldhaber — Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, Director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), and a Vice-President at the American Institutes of Research (AIR).

In analyzing these results, as well as other survey data, the nonprofit Center for American Progress (CAP) determined that teachers are more likely to support programs that rely on a variety of measures of teacher performance, rather than those that rely on only one measure (such as test scores).

The results, based on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nation's report card, were unearthed from online data by researchers at the American Federation of Teachers — which has historically supported charter schools but has produced research in recent years raising doubts about the expansion of charter schools — who provided them to The New York Times.

Data obtained from the New York Department of Education by FairTest, which is assisting the teachers, shows that 73 % of whites passed the General Knowledge portion of the NTE in 1994 - 95 while only 32 % of African Americans, 25 % of Latinos, and 51 % of Asian Americans reached the state - mandated cut - off score.