Sentences with phrase «hire more teachers who»

My analytical strategy relied on a simple economic argument: If schools that face stronger competition prefer certain characteristics in their teachers, then they should hire more teachers who possess those characteristics and pay them a higher wage.

They acknowledge programs could be improved by the hiring more teachers who are fully qualified.

Not exact matches

More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.

Another possibility is that many individuals who graduate from college with an education major do not actually end up teaching, and it may be that the more academically competent among those trained to teach actually become teachers, either because of application or hiring decisions.

If the experienced teachers who retire are more effective than the new hires, teacher retirements could reduce student achievement.

A new study finds that teachers hired during recession periods are more effective in math than teachers who are hired in more secure times because stronger applicants apply for teaching jobs when the economy is not doing well.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

In Nevada's Clark County, teachers with more than 30 years of experience actually earn substantially less total compensation than a novice teacher: the loss in retirement payments for such a teacher who remains employed another year is more than the difference between his salary and that of a newly hired teacher.

Heads of schools should also have more knowledge than central administrators about which teachers to hire and who deserves promotion or a raise in salary.

How much money is spent, and where, who is hired or fired, how we promote effective teaching, how we measure education outcomes, and more — all are affected by the relative power of the teachers unions at any given moment.

In rural areas, a solution more immediate than hiring Hispanic teachers and paraprofessionals may be to recruit and train promotores — staff who provide families with advice, encouragement, and assistance in unfamiliar aspects of schools and their organizational culture.

The extra money will go toward hiring more teachers for students who are learning English.

«The private sector can be much more flexible about who it hires, and can set up schools quickly in rented buildings and hire teachers from the local community.»

It just means more hiring, then laying off the same teachers and punishing taxpayers who needlessly pay for a bloated workforce.

Also, the study notes, teachers newly hired in 2011 - 12 had average IMPACT scores that were more than 25 points higher than the teachers who left.

Also, it's not just teachers who are hired when the economy is robust; more support personnel are invariably a part of the package.

By rewarding individuals who step up on their own and take the training by hiring them first or giving them preferred placement on jobs, substitute teachers will be more than willing to invest in training.

We absolutely make it a priority to hire minority teachers who have backgrounds that are similar to our students — and we've done a good job of doings so — but there are other qualities that are even more important.

The cuts fall hardest on new and future teachers, particularly for teachers hired after the recession who do not plan to teach in the same state for 30 or more years.

Turnover is higher in districts that meet shortages by hiring teachers who have not completed an adequate preparation, as novices without training leave after their first year at more than twice the rate of those who have had student teaching and rigorous preparation.

But at the same time, states are hiring younger and more transient teachers who can be paid lower salaries and often leave before qualifying for a large or even moderate pension.

The vacancies are pushing school districts to hire more inexperienced teachers who may not even have their teaching credentials yet.

They tend to employ teachers who are more inexperienced than the hires at affluent schools, and they often are not adequately trained for the intense environments they will face, making them more likely to leave, said Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor emerita at Stanford who heads the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

«What's more, while no - one would hope for an economic downturn, recessions do seem to provide a window of opportunity for the government to hire teachers who would otherwise have not chosen this career path.»

More than half the teachers who will be teaching ten years from now will be hired during the next decade» (Darling - Hammond, 1996, p. 5).

June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many teacher hiring rules, so that the administrators have far more control over who teaches there than at other high schools.

In the districts that hired more underprepared teachers, the share of new hires who held less than a full teaching credential increased by about 30 %, on average, compared to the previous year.

For the most part though, the unions are still throwing most of their money and manpower toward the Democrats, who have also supported policies they like — including a bill to hire nearly 300,000 more teachers, which was scuttled by Republicans in Congress.

In Pittsburgh, a new teachers contract overhauls the way teachers are hired, evaluated and paid, including paying more to teachers who get the best results.

Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education Teacher certification arises as another common sticking point in any discussion about charters, which generally get more leeway to hire more uncertified and nonunion teachers, which they say lets them recruit people who don't come from the usual teacher - education teacher - education tracks.

Academies can set their own terms for teachers» pay and conditions, they don't have to follow the national curriculum, and if qualified teacher status is abolished, they will have much more flexibility in who can be hired.

Ryan, (if you're reading this) Along with countless parents, I am at a loss as to how you — or anyone else at EdTrust — can reconcile...... EdTrust's advocacy for high quality teachers for every child in California, with...... EdTrust's support for hiring Teach for America Corps Members, those un-credentialed, unqualified folks who have but a scant 5 weeks of summer school training and zero classroom experience — 70 % of whom leave the classroom after two years, and 85 % leave the classroom... Read More

Although research shows that BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom, BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70 Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of BTR «would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.»

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.

We could hire extra bilingual teachers, especially those who get their certification through alternative programs, so they can have more practice.

The program included hiring nine new principals, replacing more than half of the targeted schools» teachers with new ones (who were screened for embodying the «no excuses» philosophy) and hiring 257 tutors.

According to NCTR, first - year teachers in NCTR programs are more effective — based on student learning gains — than their novice teacher peers and an overwhelming majority of principals would recommend hiring a teacher who has experienced a clinical residency to a colleague.80

I only hope that you and your cohorts at RECO also see the light regarding «who» to hire as teachers of the hopefully more stringent course content.