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Arun Ramanathan, who directs the advocacy group Education Trust - West, said he hoped the national focus on education and the importance of good teaching will help bring an end to the notorious «dance of the lemons,» or the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school, which is depicted in an animated cartoon.

«The Dance of the Lemons» is a phrase you can expect to hear more of in the coming months; it refers to the practice of shuffling bad teachers from school to school due to the difficulty it takes to fire a poor educator.

Klein also said he had streamlined legal procedures to make it easier to fire teachers and end the «dance of the lemons,» the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school.

Not exact matches

Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

There is nothing worse than getting a call from a teacher or an administrator indicating that your child has been bullying other kids at school.

If you are concerned your child has a bad teacher, either your child has come home from school telling you terrible stories about their day, or you have heard awful stories from other parents.

Worse, my children's previous elementary school once promoted «family dinner night» at McDonalds, where the energetic teachers donned aprons and served fast food to the kids and their families to collect 10 % of profits from every transaction that night.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

Teachers already have very clear powers to use reasonable physical force where necessary and to discipline pupils for bad behaviour on the journey to and from school.

«Teachers and school staff have worked hard to make the best out of a bad situation — at P.S. 19Q they do amazing work — but our students deserve more from us.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cTeachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that cteachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

But things go from bad to worse when Campbell crosses the school's toughest and most feared teacher, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), causing Strickland to be fired.

With the school production in full swing, the drama teacher Carl Kapinas (Lane) goes into meltdown; Jason enjoys his new found attention a little too much, and things go from bad to worse for poor Linda, who in truth brought this whole saga upon herself.

Things go from bad to worse when he crosses Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), the school's toughest and most feared teacher.

From mall Santas, to school teachers, to spelling bee contestants, Hollywood has a penchant for bringing out the worst in people we don't normally associate with bad behavior.

The tremendously gifted Lucy Punch (who you might know from such films as Hot Fuzz and Dinner for Schmucks) costars in Bad Teacher as the painfully perky and perfectionistic Jr. high school teacher, Amy SqTeacher as the painfully perky and perfectionistic Jr. high school teacher, Amy Sqteacher, Amy Squirrel.

Back in 2011, states chafing under the badly outdated No Child Left Behind Act leapt at the Obama administration's offer of relief from the mandates at the center of the law — and the chance to forge a new and innovative partnership with the federal government to bolster standards, pinpoint good teachers, and fix low - performing schools.

The worst thing we could do at this time with teacher and principal evaluations related to student achievement, even though I think it is the Holy Grail of school reform, is to impose any version from Washington.

Furthermore, many argue that freedom from sometimes constraining teacher contracts and district policies can infuse a breath of fresh air badly needed in school reform.

If you're a school principal, why give a teacher a bad rating if you know you still can't remove her from the classroom?

These include: reforming National Professional Qualifications to equip school leaders with skills on how to deal with bad behaviour; encouraging providers to bid for funding from a pot of # 75 million from the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund; and revising existing advice for schools including the mental health and behaviour guidance to ensure they support teachers and school leaders.

If attaching stakes to individual teachers is a bad idea and leads to the testing tail wagging the school dog, it's hard to see what will change four years from now.

School funding cuts will be worse than expected and children from «just about managing» families (JAMs) will be hit hardest, according to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

Low - performing schools could badly use a boost from nationally certified teachers, who disproportionately work in schools less likely to be struggling, says a report from the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council.

But overturning the tenure and seniority laws, he said, «would not prevent administrators from assigning the worst teachers to schools serving poor and minority students.»

Students drop out because the schools fail them, but they could accomplish practically anything if they were saved from bad teachers.

The teachers unions have declared that student testing is bad, that teacher evaluation is counter-productive, and that school choice detracts from good schooling.

It said, when it invited proposals from states, that you needed to have more charter schools, you needed to have merit pay — which is a terrible idea — you needed to judge teachers by test scores, which is even a worse idea.

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Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

Making matters worse, she said, teachers can't identify any new special education students coming in from middle school.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

Still, he acknowledges that classrooms bursting at the seams are bad for everyone — students, teachers, administrators, and the district — but he did not shy away from putting at least some of the blame for the unwieldy classes on local school leadership.

But successful charter schools, Kopp maintains, also stop at nothing to remove bad teachers from the classroom.

Put simply, this means that the best teachers close achievement gaps, while the worst teachers widen them.38 And these results are not just a matter of which teachers receive the less challenging teaching assignments: A major, multiyear study from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showed that high - performing teachers remained so across schools, regardless of whether those schools were high - or low - poverty.39

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to JulSchools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to Julschools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

The bottom line is that despite the billions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, firing of all those old bad teachers, no teacher union and no local elected school board the New Orleans reforms failed miserably.

drew criticism from lawmakers, and a leaked email from the school instructing teachers to erase bad grades further tarnished the company's image.

Each has had its own bogeymen — from «inadequate funding» to «unfunded mandates,» from «anything - goes» curricula to «lack of choice» in schools, from «bad teachers» to over-testing.

Poor academic results drew criticism from lawmakers, and a leaked email from the school instructing teachers to erase bad grades further tarnished the company's image.

The worst is the effect on teachers and the teaching profession: the erosion of public support for them and their work, the image of teachers as under attack from every quarter, the plummeting applications to teachers colleges, the flight of teachers from schools serving disadvantaged students and from the profession generally, the fall in teachers» salaries relative to those of others and the attacks on their benefits.

Again and again, Klein recounts his own deprived childhood and how it was a public - school teacher who plucked him from a path to mediocrity or worse.

The list of problems with public schools in L.A. — from effectively teaching English language learners to dealing with an anti-reform-minded teachers» union to bad principals and teachers to a huge, messy bureaucracy to better parent involvement and so forth — is long and varied.

Worse still, they led to unwarranted sanctions for many schools serving concentrations of English learners, including having to «reconstitute» schools which could involve staff dismissals, closing schools in many low - income communities, and causing the flight of many good teachers from schools labelled as failing.

Today, per pupil spending is down $ 800 from where it was in 2008, classrooms are large, and Arizona school teachers are the worst paid in the nation.

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This accusation appears to spring from supporters of the «corporate reform» movement, which takes the ideologically driven position that «bad» teachers and teachers» unions are the major obstacles to improving American schooling.

While some charter schools have unionized teachers, including three in Rhode Island, teacher unions are often critical of charters, saying they siphon away badly needed resources from school districts.