Sentences with phrase «contested teacher policies»

You will also find survey data that provides additional insight on the generation gap on contested teacher policies connected to performance.

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But it is precisely the focus on teacher evaluation — and whether it is connected to student test scores — that is at the center of the most hotly contested education policy debates.

The GOP takeover of the Senate could shake up higher education policy, analysts say, while results in state elections offer more of a mixed bag, with teacher unions prevailing in California, while the GOP retained two hotly contested governorships in Wisconsin and Florida, where education issues played a role.

Policies thus enter into crowded discursive spaces around what it means to be a teacher; within these spaces, contested meanings of teaching shape how any one policy is enacted.