Sentences with phrase «evaluation scores strikes»

Publicizing teachers» evaluation scores strikes me completely counter productive to that goal.

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Most important, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't struck a deal with the city on how to use student test scores in these evaluations.

The persistence of the benefits of tracking is striking, as many evaluations find that the test - score effects of successful interventions fade over time.

In fact, Andrew Cuomo helped move the student score needle up, writing in a letter to the Regents just before their May vote, «This change would ensure that greater balance is struck between using objective teacher evaluation measures... and subjective teacher evaluation measures.»

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

In September, teachers went on strike and won a pay raise and limits on test scores in teacher evaluations.

Under the deal that concluded the strike, test scores now will account for only 30 percent of the criteria for teacher evaluations.

In Chicago, test scores were set to comprise 40 percent of teacher evaluations until a seven - day teacher strike erupted in September 2012.

A dispute over the exact weight that student test scores have in teacher evaluations is at the very heart of the teacher's strike in Chicago.