Sentences with phrase «bad teachers in public schools»

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In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioIn the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioin decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioin 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

Teacher attrition rates are especially bad in Hawaii, where only about half of the state's public school teachers remain teaching after five years.

Beverly L. Hall pronounced conditions at the schools worse than anything she had encountered in 25 years as a teacher and administrator in the New York City public schools.

All of my public school teachers — the good, the bad, and the easily forgettable — were fully credentialed and would have been deemed highly qualified under federal law had they lasted in the profession until the onset of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

In his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools, Stanford University professor Terry Moe argues that unions are bad for American education.

In a recent survey by Public Agenda, more than 80 percent of teachers said that without unions, they would be vulnerable to the vagaries of school politics, and their salaries and working conditions would be much worse.

To make matters worse, 40 percent of all public school teachers, including those teaching in Colorado, are not eligible to participate in Social Security, placing even more weight on a system that isn't serving the majority of its members well.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes wereTeachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes wereteachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

Anyone who views the strings attached to the supposedly increased dollars will immediately see that Pryor, with Malloy and Jepsen to help him, is cynically using the inequities in order to push his agenda of privatizing and increasing the number of charter schools — which are not better than well - resourced, well - staffed (no TFA, please) public schools — indeed, with their shaming rituals, bare - bones curriculum, and newbie teachers, they are much worse.

The article summarizes, or I should say celebrates, the Vergara v. California trial, the case in which nine public school students (emphasis added as these were not necessarily these students» ideas) challenged California's «ironclad tenure system,» arguing that their rights to a good education had been violated by state - level job protections making it «too difficult» to fire bad teachers.

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

According to the American Federation of Teachers, «The film's central themes — that all public school teachers are bad, that all charter schools are good and that teachers» unions are to blame for failing schools — are incomplete and inaccurate, and they do a disservice to the millions of good teachers in our schools who work their hearts out every dayTeachers, «The film's central themes — that all public school teachers are bad, that all charter schools are good and that teachers» unions are to blame for failing schools — are incomplete and inaccurate, and they do a disservice to the millions of good teachers in our schools who work their hearts out every dayteachers are bad, that all charter schools are good and that teachers» unions are to blame for failing schools — are incomplete and inaccurate, and they do a disservice to the millions of good teachers in our schools who work their hearts out every dayteachers» unions are to blame for failing schools — are incomplete and inaccurate, and they do a disservice to the millions of good teachers in our schools who work their hearts out every dayteachers in our schools who work their hearts out every day.»

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.

It means that the numbers of impoverished and disadvantaged students grow in numbers in those public schools and for some reason, «brilliant» businessmen like Bill Gates equates this scenario to continually failing public schools because of «bad» teachers.

And as an African - American, he could have uplifted African - American teachers who are so badly needed to help poor children of color and to also bridge the divide in our public schools and country.

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.

The majority of AF teachers began their careers as unionized teachers in traditional public schools but eventually moved to Achievement First because the schools at which they began were so badly managed.

This very bad bill amazingly had the support of the Washington Education Association — the teachers union in Washington State — even though it led to the firing of more than one thousand public school teachers in Washington State as any student in any other school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K2school teachers in Washington State as any student in any other school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K2school district could sign up for this corrupt program and their home school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K2school district would lose $ 8,000 per student nearly all of which would be passed through the Steilacoom School District to K2School District to K21 INC!

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.

Anthony Bryk, Eric Camburn, and Karen Seashore Louis, «Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences,» Educational Administration Quarterly 35, no. 5 (1999): 751 — 781; Andrew Calkins, William Guenther, Grace Belfiore, and Dave Lash, The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst - Performing Schools (Boston: Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, 2007); Yvonne L. Goddard, Roger D. Goddard, and Megan Tschannen - Moran, «A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Teacher Collaboration for School Improvement and Student Achievement in Public Elementary Schools,» Teachers College Record 109, no. 4 (2007): 877 — 896; Karen Seashore Louis and Helen M. Marks, «Does Professional Community Affect the Classroom?

I'm not rich, I don't have a camera that can film 100 min block periods or a videographer to clip and compress the footage so it fits on Taskstream, I'm super miserable every single day thinking about this, I've started thinking if edTPA is this horrible how bad will BTSA be, and if this is what being a public school teacher is like, I was wrong in thinking I could do it.

Using teachers as guinea pigs in a risky experiment, where non-educators imposed their untested opinions on public schools, was always bad policy.

In response to Malloy's remark that public school teachers need only show up for four years and they'll get tenure, Malloy recently told the audience at the Norwich Bulletin Candidate Debate, «I should admit that was bad language.

Worst: Teachers who work in private schools for children with learning differences do not have qualifications to teach them, only public school teaTeachers who work in private schools for children with learning differences do not have qualifications to teach them, only public school teachersteachers do

That's despite an American Federation of Teachers study released last month that found charter school students nationwide performed significantly worse than students in regular public schools.

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

Meanwhile, Lee, with the Durham school board, said state lawmakers have badly under - funded public schools in the last decade, shortchanging local districts on classroom supplies, teaching assistants and teacher pay.

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doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of develoschool, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.