Sentences with phrase «holding teachers accountable against»

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Oddly enough, teacher preparation programs occasionally argue against being held accountable for things like placement rates because they don't believe they have any control over how many of their teachers receive jobs.

First, I'm not theoretically against evaluating teachers or the idea of holding professionals accountable.

While many in state capitols and Washington, D.C. are placing bets against state and national accountability systems that range from No Child Left Behind to Common Core State Standards, the public remains faithful to its long - standing commitment to hold schools, students and teachers accountable.

Kathleen M. Cashin, the Regent from Brooklyn, voted against the change, saying it would hold teachers accountable for a new standard without providing more training for them to improve.

The first argument against its use relates to how it might be applied for accountability — that teachers should not be held fully accountable for any one test or data point, given the range of factors and measures involved in student learning.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.