Sentences with phrase «evaluation reform movement»

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Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta said there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.

Commissioner Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta, with NYSUT, says there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.

Someday, when they write the history of the education - reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today's obsession with high - stakes teacher evaluations.

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

These approaches also provide an opportunity to refocus on the original intent of the educator evaluation movement ─ to provide teachers and principals with meaningful, differentiated professional support and growth opportunities that enable them to grab the reform reins.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said this week that the lack of a provision mandating that states develop teacher and principal evaluation systems threatens the forward movement of education reform.

Deeply seasoned in animosity toward the education reform movement, Los Angeles Unified held its traditional ground as charter schools were built around its schools, demands for merit pay for teachers were answered by corporate philanthropists and metrics - based teacher evaluation processes were published in the Los Angeles Times.

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.