Sentences with phrase «least effective teachers»

The state should ensure that all students — and especially the groups of students that have been disproportionately assigned to the least effective teachers — have access to strong and diverse educators.

According to Sanders's analysis, «On average, the least effective teachers produce gains of about 14 percentile points among low - achieving students; the most effective teachers posted gains that averaged 53 percentile points.

High - achieving students gain an average of only 2 points when taught by the least effective teachers but an average of 25 points when taught by the most effective teachers.

My own research suggests that replacing just 5 % to 8 % of the least effective teachers with an average teacher would noticeably boost the achievement of our current students and would pay off lavishly in the future, through their enhanced productivity and faster economic growth.

In fact, the authors found that moving the least effective teachers to the earlier grades harmed students» overall achievement, because those early grades simply matter more to students» long - term trajectories.

Math scores of fifth - grade students assigned for three years in a row to the most effective teachers averaged in the 85th to 95th percentiles, and math scores of fifth - grade students assigned for three years in a row to the least effective teachers averaged in the 35th to 45th percentiles.

Students who scored in the bottom quarter of state math exams in fourth grade had a 62 percent chance of passing the math portion of the high school competency test if they had the most effective math teachers in grades 5 - 8 but only a 16 percent chance of passing if they had four straight years of the least effective teachers.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

Was this a policy designed to identify, and remove, America's least effective teachers?

In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?»

Some perceived harms might be unavoidable, including closing schools, terminating the least effective teachers and principals, or reducing central office employment and contracting.

Finally, starting with the least effective teachers in each district and moving up the effectiveness ladder, enough teachers are assigned to a hypothetical layoff pool to achieve a budgetary savings for each district that is at least as great as the budgetary savings each district would have seen had all the teachers who received a layoff notice in 2008 — 09 actually been laid off.

We also want to ensure that our least effective teachers move out of the classroom to places where they are better suited.

It is plausible that low - income and minority students are assigned the least effective teachers.

Yet the calculations above show the enormous value to individuals and society of «deselecting» the least effective teachers.

Those teachers who fall into the first quintile, the least effective teachers, were found to elicit average student gains of roughly 14 percentile points a year.

FERTIG: By contrast, Faustin says only half the students in classes taught by her least effective teachers made a year's worth of progress.

Unions have also argued in briefs that there isn't evidence linking the least effective teachers to the neediest schools, and that there's no evidence students named in the lawsuit have been taught by the worst teachers.

Further, Judge Treu said, the least effective teachers are disproportionately assigned to schools filled with low - income and minority students.

These high - need schools are also most likely to be staffed by the less experienced, least effective teachers.

Judge Treu also concluded that the laws in questions disproportionately affect low - income and minority students and that a «lack of effective dismissal statutes and LIFO» harm them through the so - called «dance of the lemons,» a tactic often used by districts to send the least effective teachers into classrooms with the high concentrations of vulnerable students.

In terms of student learning, research also shows that student with the most effective teachers on average advance a grade and a half on academic assessments in a single academic year, while students of similar backgrounds with the least effective teachers acquire about only half a grade level of learning in the same academic year.

Students from historically disadvantaged groups, who year after year are taught by the least effective teachers, are by far the most frequent victims — often with life - changing consequences — of the deficiencies in our teacher preparation and placement system.

Because layoff notices just went out to 5,500 teachers in the Los Angeles Unified schools, and the UTLA contract guarantees one thing: Those notices aren't going to the least effective teachers.

The evidence shows it's a settling, with the least effective teachers moving to lower performing and more economically disadvantaged schools.

Although research shows that the earliest grades have an outsized impact on success later in life, administrators are in some ways incentivized to push their least effective teachers to early elementary because states often don't test students until the third grade.

When students leave, schools can lay off the least effective teachers.

And because our least effective teachers are concentrated in our poorest schools, the cost of leaving them in the classroom is borne disproportionately by our most disadvantaged students.

Edelman said these concerns are «absolutely legitimate,» but added that despite poverty's role in education outcomes, «we should be doing everything we can to help kids get their best education rather than systematically providing them with the least effective teachers, as we currently are.»

You do not want your child assigned to the least effective teacher,» she said.

Schools can accurately identify their most and least effective teachers: Using multiple measures of performance — including classroom observations and students» progress on standardized tests — schools can accurately identify teachers who help their students learn the most, and those who struggle to help students learn at all.

They can help identify the most effective and least effective teachers, but they are not sensitive enough to differentiate among the 70 % or so in the middle.

Schools need to keep the right teachers: Schools across the country keep too few of their best teachers and too many of their least effective teachers.

«Lots and lots of schools reward incompetence so that the least effective teachers get the easiest class... whereas if you're good, you get more piled on your plate,» Frazin says.