Sentences with phrase «holding teachers accountable only»

Measuring growth strikes many as far preferable to holding teachers accountable only for end - of - year test scores.

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With this veto, the governor has decided that teachers are the only ones who should be held accountable for the state's failed implementation of the Common Core.

It has only held one program accountable for its consistently low performance by reducing the number of new teacher candidates that the institution could admit.

The «Friday Report» group was counseled that the system would work only as well as parents held their child accountable for making sure the form was given to each teacher and brought home by the student.

Evaluating teachers based on the student test results is bad for everyone: «It's like if the measure of your health and wellness were what you weighed every day — and so, if you were held accountable only for what you weighed, you'd be tempted to take diet pills,» he says.

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

And why are teachers and administrators being held accountable for students» scores, and only them?

Do «education reformers» think all teachers are bad, or the only ones in the system that need to be held accountable?

That said, the teaching certification is not the only qualification that holds teachers accountable.

Haslam said it only makes sense that if «the teachers are being held more accountable and they are producing better results — and that's undeniable in Tennessee — then it is our obligation to also have the fastest increasing teachers» salaries in the country.»

With so much emphasis on teacher accountability in the current political climate, holding the top teacher every bit as accountable as her staff is only right, said Madden.

Only testing every child in every grade allows us to hold districts and schools and teachers accountable.

As such, charter schools operate under a much less stringent regulatory environment in which results matter but inputs do not — charter school leaders and teachers have the freedom to run their schools and classrooms as they see fit, and are held accountable only for their students» academic outcomes.

As with Bredesen's Tennessee First to the Top Act, Johnston got lopsided votes for a Race - friendly bill he sponsored in February that not only ties student test scores back to teachers but also names the educational institutions that trained the teachers, so that education schools, too, would be held accountable.

They know that most teachers want to be effective and that data - based performance assessments should be combined with classroom observation and other subjective measures not only to hold teachers accountable but also to help them improve their performance.