Sentences with phrase «because of the new teacher evaluation system»

While not mentioned in the Times editorial, the appropriate use of student test scores is an issue in LAUSD because of the new teacher evaluation system that had seemingly been agreed to earlier this year but is now the subject of much dispute.

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«New York State's students are now in danger of losing hundreds of millions of dollars because of the failure to devise a teacher evaluation system that works.»

New York States students are now in danger of losing hundreds of millions of dollars because of the failure to devise a teacher evaluation system that works.

The state's education commissioner says she's open to granting waivers to delay new teacher evaluation for an additional year, saying the new systems should not be hastily pushed through because of an arbitrary date.

A year ago, the union's president, Richard Iannuzzi, was ousted in an election in part because of frustration with the rollout of the new state tests and the new teacher evaluation system, which the union had agreed to.

Last November, she received a preliminary rating of 1, the lowest level, on the district's new teacher - evaluation system, primarily because of classroom - management...

They did not leave because of reforms like the new teacher evaluation system or the adoption of higher learning standards.

A year ago, the union's president, Richard Iannuzzi, was ousted in an election in part because of frustration with the rollout of the new state tests and the new teacher evaluation system, which the union had agreed to.

Dozens of teachers in New Haven, Conn., have left because they were rated poorly under the new evaluation system theNew Haven, Conn., have left because they were rated poorly under the new evaluation system thenew evaluation system there.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

Because the new evaluation system will provide a more comprehensive, nuanced view of each teacher and principals strengths and weaknesses, a more frequent, customized approach to coaching and professional development can and will be developed.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.

In other Race to the Top news, the Department of Education removed Hawaii from high - risk status (PDF) because the state made significant progress on its grant commitments, including collaborating with the state's teachers union to formalize a new educator evaluation system.

However, what we have seen since 2009, when states began to adopt what were then (and in many ways still are) viewed as America's «new and improved» or «strengthened» teacher evaluation systems, is that for 70 % of America's teachers, these teacher evaluation systems are still based only on the observational indicators being used prior, because for only 30 % of America's teachers are value - added estimates calculable.