Sentences with phrase «against teachers based»

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The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

In papers submitted by the UK Government last year in the case and seen by the BHA, the Government attempted to argue that there is no breach of EU law because «if a teacher brought a claim against a school (on the basis that the school, as an employer, had discriminated against them in their remuneration, for example), then the court or tribunal would consider the legislation in this wider context.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

The law around «faith» school employment in England, in allowing religious schools to widely discriminate — often against every teacher — on the basis of religion in who they employ, is «arbitrary» and goes beyond what is permitted by European law.

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Regent Roger Tilles, seen in Albany on March 12, said Monday that voting against legislation to repeal the state's requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on student testing would be «suicide» on Long Island.

«Nana Addo proposed Northern Development Authority (NDA) in 2008 and the NDC, kicked against it but, when they assumed office, they copied the policy idea and changed the name to Savannah Accelerated Development Authourity (SADA), the same with free Senior High School (SHS), cancelled nurses and teachers training allowances, now he has swallowed his own words, promising to pay the allowances, President Mahama, is ruling the nation based on Nana Addo's wisdom, «he stated.

As a result, new teachers were reluctant to confide in their mentors, implement research - based practices that went against the status quo, or ask for help for fear it would hurt their careers.

He is a certified meditation facilitator through Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, a teacher with LA - based non-profits CompassionLA and Mettagroup, and a facilitation trainee with UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center.

While Damien Chazelle «s film (based on a short of the same name), pits aspiring drummer Miles Teller against near - psychotic teacher J.K. Simmons, might sound familiar on the surface, it manages «a deeply and richly different take on that journey — not only examining the cost of struggle but the reward of it.»

Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

In an unprecedented move, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office brought criminal charges of grand theft last week against 43 public - school teachers who received salary increases based on fraudulently obtained college credits.

That wasn't an applause line, for sure, but it did serve another purpose: to position the candidate as a different kind of Democrat, one willing to embrace ideas from across the aisle and push back against his own teachers union base.

I also think performance reviews of teachers in some schools, that focus on student results (with a factual basis) and «window dressing» in observed lessons are forcing teachers to compete against each other.

They can be simple, intramural events designed for students at one school (or even students against teachers), or more organized (and more competitive) interscholastic matches with students traveling from school to school, usually based on geographic location or athletic conference.

While it's hard to make the case for licensure when it requires only taking a collection of courses, it's even harder to argue against a standards - based licensure system that ensures that every child will have a well - trained, high - quality teacher.

For example, in Poway, the peer - review process evaluates teachers against criteria based on the guidelines of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

Pitting computer - based learning directly against teachers or continuing to cram it into schools will not work.

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Prof. Hattie's hierarchies are an extremely helpful guide, and checklist, against which to compare the Parent, Teacher and Child based items of the school entry screening system.

There is work to be done, for example, to guard against teachers assigning homework that upsets parents who don't understand their children's assignments, especially those based on Common Core math.

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

States will be graded against 30 different criteria, with some of the largest chunks of points awarded for states that demonstrate significant buy - in from local school districts and devise plans to evaluate teachers and principals based on student performance.

More on the federal suit filed against Connecticut, backed by Students Matter, the California - based group that recently challenged teacher tenure in the Vergara vs. California case.

Today's announcement that the U.S. Department of Education will consider proposals from states to delay test - based teacher evaluation reflects belated recognition of the growing movement against standardized exam overuse and misuse.

Based on this evidence, which is assessed against established rubrics, teachers can then be recognized for what they've achieved.

All LCPS should need to do to protect teachers against nefarious outsiders seeking to attack them based on such narrow and misleading criteria is to include them somehow in the evaluation process.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

Latinos are more likely than the general population to support teachers» unions and to vote based on teachers» union endorsements, yet, at the same time, strongly supporting education reforms that teachers» unions actively fight against.

Teachers received scores based on students» actual test results measured against the predictions.

Lynas said the new approach was a result of falling confidence in a current scoring matrix in which schools tallied points based on how teachers compared against various factors, such as disciplinary matters or appraisals.

The state creates statistical profiles of students, projects how much they should gain based on where they started, and measures teachers against that.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

No longer should teachers ask students to write solely based on their personal experience or opinion — arguing for or against school uniforms, for instance.

By blaming seniority for losing «passionate, hardworking, effective teachers» to budget - based layoffs, he pits new teachers against veteran teachers instead of focusing on the huge numbers of excellent teachers who regularly leave urban districts like Oakland.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

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Instant assessment results for the student, David, allow the teacher to view his performance against research - based benchmarks.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

And religious schools can discriminate against students based and gender and teachers based on religion.

Against any and all factual information at hand, Cuomo then decreed that 50 % of the teacher evaluation would be based on test scores.

Opposition against teacher evaluation based solely on student test scores is strong.

The Winston Society — or «Winsoc,» in Orwell's newspeak — played on these associations in constructing the wiki as a space for classroom teachers to join the likes of Winston Smith and «fight big brother» — that is, work against NCLB and its test - based accountability measures — and cultivate alternative visions for education that involved more progressive politics and pedagogies.

Over time, they met other teachers who were also interested in ensuring that students from low - income families have the most effective teachers possible, and in February 2011, two of them took personal days from school to travel to the state capitol and provide testimony against seniority - based human resource decisions.

When you have teachers scrambling and pitted against each other for a small amount of money [based on how their students perform on a test], what it does is narrow the curriculum to what's on the test, even if you don't set curriculum specifically.