Sentences with phrase «by student test scores»

There was no new thinking, just more money to push states to engage in harmful policies, like evaluating teachers by student test scores.

The caveat to this study, which will make it completely meaningless in the eyes of some, is that student outcomes were measured by student test scores.

Yes, it is important that good teaching is not defined solely by student test scores or classroom resources.

Measuring teachers by student test scores has been a costly failure.

At the union's annual convention last week in Denver, where Eskelsen García was officially elected, some teachers said it's time for a leader who will play hardball with the feds and push back against Education Secretary Arne Duncan's agenda, which includes evaluating teachers in part by student test scores and supporting the growth of charter schools, often staffed by non-union teachers.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

This group concluded that «[w] hile there are good reasons for concern about the current system of teacher evaluation, there are also good reasons to be concerned about claims that measuring teachers» effectiveness largely by student test scores will lead to improved student achievement.»

«As long as APPR [Annual Professional Performance Review, teacher evaluations informed by student test scores] is preserved, teachers will teach to the test and the stress they feel will inevitably be felt by students and families,» he says.

As a nation we now have a toxic combination of a failed federal policy — No Child Left Behind — which made testing the be-all and end - all of schooling, and Bill Gates» misguided belief that teacher quality can be determined by student test scores.

In Michigan, StudentsFirst spent $ 955,000 last fall to push an education package that included evaluating teachers primarily by student test scores and restricting union bargaining rights (so issues like the new evaluation system would not be subject to negotiation).

Are all teachers in CORE districts being evaluated in part by student test scores?

She is one of the co-authors of the principals» letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by nearly 1,400 New York principals.

Under the law, for the first time, schools were required to test every student annually in math and reading in grades K - 8, and schools had to make «adequate yearly progress» — as measured by student test scores — or face increasingly heavy penalties.

She is one of the co-authors of a principals» letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by more than 1,500 New York principals.

Many teachers today, including NEA members, have been angry at the Obama administration for education reform policies that they say have harmed public education, including its support for the expansion of charter schools and the controversial evaluation of teachers by student test scores.

She became a fierce critic of President Obama's education policies and his chief education initiative, Race to the Top, which was a multi-billion-dollar competition in which states (and later districts) could win federal funds by promising to adopt controversial reforms, including the Common Core State Standards, charter schools and systems that evaluated teachers by student test scores.

If this election had been held five years ago, the department would be insisting on small schools, but because Gates has already tried and discarded that approach, the department is promoting the new Gates remedies: charter schools, privatization, and evaluating teachers by student test scores.

She is the co-author of the New York Principals letter of concern regarding the evaluation of teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by more than 1,500 New York principals and more than 5,400 teachers, parents, professors, administrators and citizens.

Darling - Hammond's research has shown that rating teachers by student test scores, known as value - added measures, is flawed and volatile.

Indeed, it's well understood in the education policy realm that California has bucked national trends by pausing school accountability and not requiring that teachers be evaluated by student test scores.

It's been accentuated by the emphasis, first from the No Child Left Behind legislation that President George W. Bush pushed, and then from Secretary Duncan's Race to the Top, that says evaluate teachers by their student test scores.

Following the LAUSD meeting, the California state Board of Education voted on September 16th to create an online database to track teachers by students test scores.

Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public - school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores...

While he has called for an overhaul of No Child Left Behind's narrowly - focused exams, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's policy prescriptions have stressed judging teachers by student test scores, in addition to classroom observations and other such measures.

The program dangled nearly $ 5 billion in front of cash - hungry states, which could become eligible only if they agreed to open more privately managed charter schools, to evaluate their teachers by student test scores, to offer bonuses to teachers if their students got higher test scores, and to fire the staff and close schools that didn't make progress.