Sentences with phrase «force teachers»

Saving for retirement is hard enough, but states are forcing teachers into complex decisions about how much their pension might be worth in the future.

-- so lawmakers would instead force teachers to voluntarily give tenure up if they want to pull themselves out of a low - wage hole.

This might force teachers state what a student can't do.

Following the data often forces teachers to do just that.

Does the accountability movement in schools force teachers to spend more time teaching to the test?

But early applications of this technology forced the teacher to play writer, director, and producer for each set of digitally enhanced lessons.

Obviously, personalized learning forces teachers and students to ask some tough questions, have some meaningful conversations and create some unique learning experiences.

For instance, most districts give transferring teachers a maximum of five years credit for previous experience, forcing teachers with more experience to take a salary cut if they want to be hired.

By law, a teacher's union can not force teachers to join.

Mismanagement from SLT can play a major role in forcing teachers out of our classrooms, writes one history teacher

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

Advocacy groups also recently noted that the department's proposal on supplement, not supplant does not offer protections against forced teacher transfers to meet comparability requirements.

State law now forces teacher layoffs to be made strictly in order of reverse seniority — last hired, first fired — with absolutely no consideration of a teacher's effectiveness in the classroom.

Civil rights groups and the teachers unions issued tepid statements, and the state chiefs would prefer it didn't force teacher evaluations onto states, but again, no one seems to be ready to fight for it.

According to the opinion piece, Mayor de Blasio is considering forcing the teachers back into schools.

The current system wastes valuable class time, Higgins says, by forcing teachers to spend months preparing students for a test.

Gov. John Engler of Michigan has signed one of the first state laws in recent years to relax, rather than tighten, legal curbs on how much force teachers can use on students.

Restricting collective bargaining would force teachers unions to pursue their interests through the legislative process, where competing interests might have a better chance to check their power.

Later, his press office said «the notion that we are going to force teachers on principals or schools is unequivocally false.»

Lack in preprofessional training forces teachers to look for computer science preparation outside of the classroom

Targets seemed to force teachers increasingly to teach to the test, sacrificing the «broad and balanced curriculum» and the emphasis on creativity that is essential if primary children are to learn.

At the same time, immigrant youth force teachers to develop strategies that employ multiple forms of communication, and to think beyond the United States in the curriculum, from social studies lessons to examples used in math word problems.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

Facing similar budget gaps over the past three years, NPS administrators restricted hiring practices, forcing teachers previously without placement into schools without mutual consent from the teacher and the principal.

While forcing teachers into low - performing schools rarely works, more successful efforts in places like Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C. and Boston take the opposite approach.

This litigation has ten teachers and the Christian Educators Association International — a union alternative — taking on the California Teachers Association with a lawsuit aimed squarely at California's «agency - shop» law, which forces teachers to pay dues for collective bargaining activities, though — as per Abood — paying for the unions» political agenda is not mandatory.

For some teachers, passing the applicable certification tests has not been enough to meet the requirements for demonstrating competency in the subjects taught, thus forcing those teachers to pass additional certification tests, or, if they are «experienced teachers,» to complete a process known as a High Objective Uniform Standard of Evaluation (HOUSE).

Force teachers deemed fully or partially ineffective to face layoffs, even if they have seniority, a key element demanded by education reform advocates.

The new system forces teachers to rethink the status quo on such thorny issues as homework.

It also means supporting efforts such as that of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to stop NEA and AFT affiliates from forcing teachers regardless of their membership to pay into their coffers.

The allegations are wide - ranging, from paying female and non-Turkish teachers less than male Turks to favoring Turkish companies for construction of school buildings despite lower bids from American businesses, and forcing teachers brought over from Turkey to give a certain portion of their salary to Gulen political leaders in Turkey.

«The new law would have only forced teachers to give up these very basic protections and further undermined the ability of districts to recruit and retain high quality teachers,» Van Roekel said.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has warned that increasing high rents in London is forcing teachers out of the capital, risking the success of its schools.

Moreover, critics warn of a «narrowing» of the curriculum, saying that the heightened attention paid to standardized tests forces teachers to ignore content or even entire subjects that do not appear on the tests.

Comparability opponents» final objection — that comparable spending within districts would lead to forced teacher transfers, bad transitions for many schools, and possible mass retirements of experienced teachers — is also bogus.

It's not school boards, teachers nor administrators who have chosen to de-fund public education and force teacher layoffs.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who made a point recently of speaking to a rally organized by a group tied to the teachers union, says he thinks Cuomo's plan to force teacher evaluation agreements makes sense.

Soon after their meeting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he'll seek a legal injunction declaring the strike illegal and forcing the teachers back to work.

By forcing teachers to focus on students who fell just below the proficiency cutoff, the law may have encouraged teachers to group struggling students together to prepare them for standardized tests.

She also advised paycheck protection, a unionbusting scheme, as well as a state - provided insurance program to encourage teachers to leave the union and a transparency law to force teachers unions to show additional information to the public.

It's a move that's seen as a reaction to a recent court decision that ruled the repeal of tenure for those who have already achieved it is unconstitutional — so lawmakers would instead force teachers to voluntarily give tenure up if they want to pull themselves out of a low - wage hole.

At the beginning of the 2010 - 2011 school year, Assistant Principal Matt Curtis did not force teachers to adopt any prescribed curricula.

To Mr. Lin, traditional leadership paths for teachers can, in effect, force teachers into roles that may not be a fit for them.

Just as the country's largest generation has killed off certain chain restaurants and home goods, their attitudes are forcing teachers to rethink education.

A high - profile revision of the law on a parent's right to know information about their child has raised fears that it could force teachers to out students.

The female narrator warns: «Jason Kenney's extreme policy on GSAs (gay - straight alliances) would force teachers to out gay students... Jason Kenney.

I think it helps make the most sense of Scripture, provides the overall context of passages and hard - to - understand texts, and forces teachers to speak about things that they normally might skip over and avoid.