Sentences with phrase «elements of teacher tenure»

Reactions to questions and elements of teacher tenure demonstrate that Americans are not particularly concerned with teacher tenure, and instead support efforts that give teachers the tools and skills they need to improve teacher effectiveness (through collaboration, mentoring, survival skills, more training and prep time).

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This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

The tenure report also breaks down tenure into its component parts, and then provides a basic framework for redesigning each element of tenure to achieve better results for children and great teachers.

In a landmark ruling, a Los Angeles superior court judge on Tuesday struck down key elements of California's teacher tenure statutes after finding that the near inability to fire ineffective teachers disproportionately hurts poor and minority students.

The revisions also drew criticism from Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, who said that aside from reducing funding for the bill, the committees also stripped it of some of its key elements, such as provisions linking teacher evaluations to decisions on tenure.

But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of student learning to assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.

The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.