Sentences with phrase «address teacher quality»

Gov. Cuomo promised to address teacher quality by raising the bar on recruitment standards for instructors in his State of the State address this year.

So it is hard for Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli to offer any spirited defense of Virginia's woeful proficiency targets (or even defend the state's unwillingness to address teacher quality issues and expand school choice).

Similarly, and in apparent conflict with the push in recent years to address teacher quality and provide more meaningful training, teacher certification is a popular area for DOI exemptions.

On a biannual basis, partners convene on Capitol Hill to meet with law - makers to discuss program impact, success and barriers to implementation, and demonstrate how residencies address teacher quality and quantity challenges in districts across the nation.

It would not take further research: Address teacher quality; provide early childhood education for three - and four - year - old; longer school days and school years; more - challenging curricula.

The government has done much to address teacher quality with no real change in student achievement.

The most recent law addressing teacher quality, the Every Student Succeeds Act, had to roll back these requirements allowing each state in the U.S. to experiment with different ways to identify quality teaching.

James has also been very active in addressing teacher quality issues.

On June 14th, more than 500 parents and students gathered on the steps of City Hall to call on Mayor de Blasio to deliver details on how his administration is addressing teacher quality and the Absent Teacher Reserve pool.

Gladwell addressed teacher quality by wrapping it in two parallel challenges: identifying which star college quarterbacks will be high performers in the pros, and which Ivy League MBAs will be high performers in the financial services industry.

This starts with addressing teacher quality.

Not exact matches

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

A New York Daily News editorial features findings from the new report from StudentsFirstNY and calls for reform to address the unsatisfactory distribution of teacher quality in New York City.

Promising to build more SHS schools than NDC's 200 without addressing the related issues of what else you will do to ensure that more teachers are not only trained, but employed to produce quality education to our children, will not do.

Science Careers discusses the value of teaching science to nonscience majors and a podcast segment addresses the effects of teacher quality on early reading.

«Since having enough high - quality teachers is essential to the effective operation of the school system, these are issues that the Department needs to address urgently.»

He addressed K - 12 education, too, but only on the «compulsory attendance» and «teacher quality» fronts — and while the latter hinted at merit pay and nodded at schools having the flexibility to «replace» instructors «who just aren't helping kids learn» — mostly what he did was urge more money for schools - as - we - know - them and those who teach in their classrooms.

Knee also misses an opportunity to address the elephant in the room that any education business must face: the impact of such companies on their customers or end users, including effects on student learning, teacher quality, school productivity, or district cost savings.

The basic problem with the teacher professionalism agenda, as currently constructed, is that it rests on a shaky evidentiary and research base concerning its ability to boost student learning or to address either the quality or quantity challenges of the current teaching force.

His verbal attacks on teachers and the teacher union were not matched by any significant attempts to address problems with teacher quality.

Funding inequities, which allow some districts to have state of the art facilities and programs, complete with new computers for all students, quality free athletic programs, and comparatively high teacher salaries, while other districts are forced to cut teachers, increase class sizes, institute pay - to - play athletics, and do away with busing and art programs, need to be addressed.

The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public teachers in U.S. public schools.

This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public teachers in U.S. public schools.

Another letter, issued by a coalition called the Education Equality Project, advocated addressing school system failures through greater accountability, school choice, and changes in compensation that would promote teacher quality.

NCLB has been a great success in the sense that no one disagrees with its goals: accountability for results, addressing issues of teacher quality, putting a spotlight on the learning of all students, and better targeting of funds to districts serving the most disadvantaged students.

A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.

Addressing basic licensure issues could have a considerable impact on teacher quality.

As there have been no immediate actions taken to address the stress, workload and recruitment crisis that our teachers face, many have resorted to working part - time, only working 4 out of 5 days a week, using the 5th day to catch up on lesson planning and marking, in turn docking their pay by thousands in the name of providing high quality teaching so their students won't suffer.

In light of these findings, Plan UK is calling for greater support for teachers to prevent incidents of unwanted sexual contact, as well as high - quality statutory sex and relationships education to teach young people about issues of consent and healthy relationships, and ensuring bullying policies address gender and sexual violence, providing a safe environment for pupils to report concerns.

[11] Too often, schools make structural or organisational changes in the hope that these will lead to improved teacher and student performance, without addressing the bigger issue of teacher quality and its impact on learning.

This book is compiled by Education Week and offers information and opinion on Obama's key educational priorities, which includes expanding early education, improving teacher quality, supporting school innovation, making math and science a national priority, addressing the dropout crisis, and improving college access and affordability.

High quality, focused, and structured professional development opportunities for all teachers will be necessary to address this critical issue.

It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.

Among its recommendations: expand early education, improve teacher quality, support school innovation, make math and science national priorities, address the dropout crisis, and improve college access and affordability.

Improving teaching quality is widely recognized as critical to addressing deficiencies in secondary school education, yet the field has struggled to identify rigorously evaluated teacher - development approaches that can produce reliable gains in student achievement.

But recent revisions in the Program Performance Standards, which govern the quality of Head Start services, have begun to address weaknesses in teacher training as well as curricula.

Institutions evolve to address the challenges we hire them to solve, and rating teacher preparation programs based on the track records of their graduates would have sharpened their focus on teacher quality challenges.

And by impact we mean, for example, stating specific changes in a teacher's classroom strategies or clarity about a changed approach by a middle leader to addressing variation in teaching quality in her team.

NCTR addresses the growing need to develop, innovate, and sustain high - quality teacher residency programs nationwide.

Using a variety of assessments, videotapes of classroom instruction, and surveys (student surveys are featured in the preliminary report), the project is attempting to address some of the heretofore under - addressed issues in the measurement of teacher quality (especially non-random classroom assignment and how different classroom practices lead to different outcomes, neither of which are part of this preliminary report).

«Chairman Kline and his committee colleagues on both sides of the aisle are currently working to develop legislation that addresses accountability and teacher quality issues, which will round out the full package of House education reforms,» Allen said.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

Improving teaching quality is widely recognized as critical to addressing deficiencies in secondary school education, yet the field has struggled to identify rigorously evaluated teacher - development

Effective teacher policy has to have at least three levels: It must provide clear goals for teacher education and skill development, it must provide «support to local institutions for the education of teachers» and it must address national demands for high quality education.

Raising the bar for teacher candidates — The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) is implementing new standards — including standards that address teacher candidate quality, recruitment, and selectivity.

Providing teachers with tools for ensuring task validity along with expert task reviews and engaging educators in cross-district sessions on scoring student work are two ways of addressing technical quality within a more student - centered accountability system.

Her research addresses teacher policy, looking specifically at how teachers» preferences affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, how pre-service coursework requirements affect the quality of teacher candidates, and how reforms affect teachers» career decisions.

The public debates surrounding teacher quality and preparation accountability often do not address this increasing segmentation and, thus, focus on university - based programs.

As the district embraces the Common Core and National Core Arts Standards, visual arts teachers have been invited to the table to participate in district - wide conversations and initiatives aimed at addressing issues of access and quality.

The U.S. Department of Education and Asia Society released a report last week entitled, «Improving Teacher Quality Around the World: The International Summit on the Teaching Profession,» addressing lessons shared during the two - day event held in New York City in March.