Sentences with phrase «idea of teacher tenure»

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

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Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misTeachers Union president Karen Lewis called the idea of a quota «morally repugnant,» especially with a federal judge ruling last month that CPS's recent firing of hundreds of tenured teachers was misteachers was mishandled.

Furthermore, only 31 % of teachers like the idea of basing tenure on student test performance.

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Right away the system would revert to one mandated observation per year for tenured teachers who have reached salary step 8B and Danielson observations would get thrown into the trash bin of failed educational ideas where they belong.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

If tenure reform and using student outcomes as one measure of teacher effectiveness were as rare as bee - gobbling in 2007, they are ideas many teachers unions are currently engaged in refining.

I can not in good conscience support Minnesota's teacher tenure system as it's currently constituted, but that doesn't make the * idea * of tenure unworkable or somehow a bad thing.

The concept of teacher tenure in American public education, as Dana Goldstein documents in her book The Teacher Wars, was an idea originally imported from Gteacher tenure in American public education, as Dana Goldstein documents in her book The Teacher Wars, was an idea originally imported from GTeacher Wars, was an idea originally imported from Germany.

As a number of states begin to revamp their tenure - granting policies, the idea that high - stakes personnel decisions need to be linked to direct measures of teacher effectiveness is gaining traction among education policymakers.