Sentences with phrase «few teacher strikes»
As for raising the specter of teachers striking... with teacher salaries up only 3 % since 1990, and ever more restrictive labor regulations limiting teachers» rights to negotiate, what's surprising is how few teacher strikes we've been seeing.
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Simple premise, two funny leads with a proven chemistry between them, and lead by BAD TEACHER director Jake Kasdan, son of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK scribe, Lawrence Kasdan, this should be something worth few chuckles at least.
A recently ratified teachers» contract in Chicago promises to make the next several Septembers as forgettable as the last few: no strikes, no heated picket lines, and no delayed school openings.
Lewis and her team had been steamrolled in Springfield just a few months before, when the state legislature passed a bill that limited Chicago teachers» ability to strike.
Whilst working on a teacher - training project in schools across Pokhara, Nepal a few years ago, I was struck by the absurdity of some of the pedagogical practices.
More teachers will report to work without contracts this fall than ever before, school and union officials say, but there will be fewer strikes this year than there have been in recent years.
When I met with teachers in West Virginia a few years ago, I was struck by the culture of collaboration that has taken hold there.
Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).
Teacher pay and benefits have made headlines over the past few weeks, with walkouts and strikes by teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia.
In 2012, Chicago teachers — already the highest paid teachers in the country while working the fewest hours of any other big - city school district — went on strike.
An unprecedented wave of public school teacher walkouts and strikes, impossible to consider even a few months ago, is overturning assumptions that teachers and other public school workers are either apolitical or fearful to act.
It really struck me that, despite not being the high school teachers who had the pleasure of teaching these students the past few years, they still felt responsible for them.
After the Chicago teachers strike, a few parting observations, lessons to be learned, and things to watch in the future...
«There is a striking reduction in the teacher academic ability gap between schools with more and fewer poor students, so that between 2007 and 2010, it is 27 percent smaller than what it was between 1986 and 1989,» the researchers write.
«Stacking playing cards can be done with as few as two cards,» says one volunteer card - stacking teacher who would only identify himself as «Idra» for fear of being construed as conducting a political activity and suffering reprisals by Hamas, Israeli settlers, the Shabiha, ISIS, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and its affiliates, the Israeli Army, the Mossad, both the Syrian Army and the Free Syrian Army, the CIA, MI6, the Iranian Army, the mukhabarat of every country previously named plus Jordan, both the secret and non-secret Egyptian police, and western drone strikes.