Sentences with phrase «evaluation policy like»

A teacher evaluation policy like this is predictable given that it would be the least expensive option.

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The commissioner has also largely avoided the drama that often accompanies education policy in New York, instead sticking to SED's script on controversial topics, like Common Core and teacher evaluations.

Schmid does not mention the particular difficulties of some female candidates as a reason for adopting this policy, but enhanced evaluation methods like those she advocates could very well help to overcome the problems that Jacobson cites, allowing evaluators more accurately to judge researchers» scientific potential, whatever their gender, and that could only help women.

It can't be blamed on policy changes like No Child Left Behind (NCLB) or Common Core or teacher evaluations, because the upward trend predates all of these policies.

That will be used as fodder to attack Common Core, teacher evaluations, charter schools, or whatever else you happen not to like that's prominent in today's education policy conversation.

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

I do this as someone who played a role in the events that I describe: in 2011 and 2012, I was part of the policy team working on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver initiative and grant programs like the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), and played a role in spreading the Obama administration's teacher evaluation policies across the country.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

And it turns out that, even after policies were changed, principals still were not sure what poor teaching looked like, still did not want to upset their staffs, and still did not think giving a negative evaluation was worth the ensuing tension and hassle — especially given contractual complications and doubts that superintendents would back up personnel actions against low - rated teachers.

I'd like the state to have the best system of standards and assessments and the best policies for educator preparation, evaluation, tenure, and compensation.

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

States and school districts that adopted Obama's preferred policies — like designing teacher evaluation systems and using «robust» data systems to track student progress — were given cash grants as an award.

Following a report on the state of state policies, experts weighed in on what should evaluation systems should look like.

On education policy, do voters want the General Assembly to have an active year like 2011 — like the 2011 session, when lawmakers passed the state's voucher program, a teacher evaluation mandate and new charter school rules into law?

Over the past several years, in part due to federal grant programs like Race to the Top and other federal and state policies, states and districts have made extensive efforts to improve or refine their teacher and leader evaluation systems.

But he's worked before with the Latino Caucus which, like PEAC, pushes for a tougher stance against certain district policies, like reconstituting schools and using student test scores for teacher evaluations.

Even Christie's arch-enemies at the New Jersey Education Association like the new policy, which subjects teachers and principals to yearly evaluations that will make it tougher to gain job security and easier to lose it.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Now, it looks like IU's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, or CEEP, agrees with our conclusion.

Though practices like incorporating student achievement measures into the teacher evaluation process are becoming widespread, the application of that information to personnel policies remains highly variable across the country.

The new evaluation systems have been closely scrutinized in the education world by policy makers, publications like Education Week, and foundations that have provided money to help perfect the methods.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

Rather than public evaluation of the evidence, independent validation of the models, and robust public debate over adaptation vs mitigation, climate alarmists like Lewandowsky et al. try to frustrate the scientific method, prevent debate, and impose their incredibly expensive mitigation policies.

That means, if your disability insurance company wasn't rigid in their evaluation of risk, for every 4 policies issued like yours, they would have a $ 346,000 risk.