Sentences with phrase «public school educators do»

Public school educators do not influence the macro-economic environment.

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «Our ad shows the dedicated work our educators do in the classroom each and every day to move our public schools forward.»

One way to do this is avoid complex index systems that only confuse educators, parents, and the public and which ultimately undermine efforts to improve schools.

According to the ASG Parents Report Card 2017, 69 per cent believe schools should do more to teach students social skills and around half would like educators to do more in teaching their child how to behave in public.

At the VOISE Academy, a Chicago Public Schools campus that opened in fall 2008 with a mission to teach underprivileged children through digital technology, here's what educators did:

Though educators and the public will never agree on precisely what «citizen competence» demands of schooling, the best strategies for teaching reading, or the most appropriate curriculum for cultivating critical thinking or a sense of justice, most will agree that schools that teach or practice racism, deny boys and girls equal opportunities, or neglect mathematics do not merit public support.

Educators whine that: Critics of public schools don't know what they are talking about; parents aren't involved and leave their children home alone; children aren't motivated.

And to the extent that the public does not trust educators to do evaluation well — and it hasn't always been well done, historically, and we have plenty of teachers not teaching well and schools not doing anything about it.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

These and other education - related issues affect parents and educators more than they do other citizens, particularly those citizens who do not have children enrolled in public school.

Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»

For example, when asked about lowering student grades for disciplinary reasons, approximately half of public school teachers and administrators responded that this action was prohibited; among the educators who did think such disciplinary actions were permissible, 32 percent reported that students subject to such disciplinary sanctions were entitled to formal due process protections.

Measuring success by test scores alone, especially early in the life of a program, does a disservice to students, educators and schools — public or private.

Rarely do districts look outside the traditional population of state - certified public - school educators.

Now, educators and policymakers in that state are scrambling to determine whether and how to enforce the new law, a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that public schools must provide all students an education, regardless of their immigration status.

Philadelphia — Evangelical Christians who teach in the public schools should do all they legally can to impart their religious values to students, a group of Christian educators said here at a meeting attended by President Reagan's domestic - policy adviser.

In his new book The Founders, education reporter Richard Whitmire shares the history of the top 20 percent of high - performing public charter schools, and the visionary educators who did whatever it took to create innovative schools that works for students.

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It is crucial to recognize that «reformers,» not educators, have driven this shift: In a 2008 survey, for instance, education pollsters Steve Farkas and Anne Duffett asked, «For the public schools to help the U.S. live up to its ideals of justice and equality, do you think it's more important that they focus equally on all students regardless of their backgrounds or achievement levels... or disadvantaged students who are struggling academically?»

A new survey of public school educators reveals how the barriers to equity affect their students — and what they are willing to do to help close the resource gap.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Little did I know that six years later I would leave as an educator who strongly believes that our public schools are more than capable of meeting the needs of all learners — from prekindergarten through college — and that together we (including all of you) can help make that happen.

Many educators at public schools have made identical complaints to Paige and Congress about No Child Left Behind, under which schools can face sanctions even if a subgroup of students, such as low - income or special - education students, do poorly on annual tests.

Of course, parents and educators can come together and influence state policy, as they've done in recent years in resisting the privatization movement that would use public funds to pay for private school tuition.

«It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I would be talking about how to fight back against the attacks on public education in Puerto Rico and that educators want to act as a human shield to protect public schools and their students just as they've done in West Virginia and Oklahoma,» Weingarten told the Washington Free Beacon.

In Chicago Public Schools (CPS), black educators typically earn their master's degree 3.5 years later than white educators, and those black educators who climb the leadership ranks do so five years later than their white colleagues.

As educators and trusted messengers in our communities, we must make sure the public is informed and not fooled by presidential candidates who say they believe in a world - class education system but have a history of starving our public schools of critical funding and supporting flawed so - called reforms that don't work.

What we are doing is stating sound principles that are aligned with and underscore the responsibilities we have (or should have) agreed to take on in exchange for public dollars and the autonomy that we have (or should have) to innovate in our schools and create the kind of learning environments that families aspire to for their children and educators aspire to for their careers.

For one, education schools and elementary and secondary schools have not done enough to promote the science of learning to educators — or the public — and a number of teacher education schools continue to push the idea of learning styles and other inaccurate concepts about learning.9

Following a wave of teacher demonstrations across the United States, roughly 20,000 educators from across North Carolina converged in downtown Raleigh on Wednesday to ask their state's leaders to do more for public schools.

«It's my honor to recognize Mai for the work she does and for being such an exceptional representative of educators in Wisconsin's public schools.»

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

Educators Dipping Into Their Own Pockets To Help Fill Funding Gaps A new survey of public school educators reveals how the barriers to equity affect their students — and what they are willing to do to help close the resoEducators Dipping Into Their Own Pockets To Help Fill Funding Gaps A new survey of public school educators reveals how the barriers to equity affect their students — and what they are willing to do to help close the resoeducators reveals how the barriers to equity affect their students — and what they are willing to do to help close the resource gap.

A new grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) presents a unique opportunity for our district to create the trainings educators need to do this well.

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

Educators now understand what a truly democratic and revitalized teachers union, working arm in arm with parents and students, can do to protect public education in New York City,» Kit Wainer public school teacher and MORE member, said.

We encourage Ms. DeVos to go out and visit our public schools and see the incredible things that educators are doing every day across our state and nation.

But many educators in traditional public schools think that charter schools — though they, too, are publicly funded — are allowed to operate as private schools do, are not accountable to the public and are draining resources from the traditional public system.

Most charters are more segregatedthan traditional public schools, are non-union, and when charter educators do mount union campaigns, they almost always face tremendous opposition.

No generation of educators in the history of the world has been asked to do what we now demand of our public schools.

Educators blame school outcomes on poverty but public schools were created to overcome poverty and they were remarkably successful in doing so until the late nineteen fifties and early sixties.

The survey of 1,076 public school teachers nationwide indicates that educators are becoming increasingly supportive of doing away with unions and tenure, with support growing by four to five percentage points over the past 15 years, to 19 percent and 33 percent, respectively...

Educators blame school outcomes on poverty but public schools were created to overcome poverty and they were remarkably successful in doing...

In Boston Public Schools, holding a master's degree can result in a salary bump of more than $ 3,000 for new teachers, and more than $ 5,000 for those with many years of experience compared to educators who don't have an advanced degree, according to a Boston Public Schools

In Boston Public Schools, holding a master's degree can result in a salary bump of more than $ 3,000 for new teachers, and more than $ 5,000 for those with many years of experience compared to educators who don't have an advanced degree, according to a Boston Public Schools 2015 salary schedule.

Additionally, the report finds that DOE can and must do more to address the concerns of students, families and educators, including taking immediate steps to implement a citywide policy governing military recruitment in the New York City public school system.

College leaders in dozens of states are stepping forward to reassure parents, students, educators, and the general public that setting high expectations is the right thing to do, that the new scores are more meaningful, and that higher education stands ready to help more students graduate high school truly prepared for success.

You'd be hard pressed to find educators who don't applaud the aspiration to level the playing field for the least advantaged kids; more than half the state's six million public school students are low income.

Research done over the past decade, as well as the perspective of Connecticut's public school educators on the use of the current teacher evaluation guidelines, has shown time and again how inappropriate it is to base the evaluation of a teacher on standardized test scores.