Sentences with phrase «like teacher evaluations»

Again, like the teacher evaluation bill, it gave some people what they wanted and others not.

The union did not like teacher evaluations, but if you surveyed teachers as we did, there was a broad range of opinion.

In the final analysis, we need to see principal evaluation, just like teacher evaluation, as a means to support improvement — not an end in itself.

Principals report exercising more power over matters like teacher evaluation, but they remain equally responsible for traditional activities, like setting school discipline.

On Jan. 12, union leaders, teachers, parents and students rallied in the Capitol, where they called issues like teacher evaluations a distraction and demanded instead that Mr. Cuomo increase funding for schools.

But he won't be persuaded to retreat from raising standards and implementing education reforms like teacher evaluations, he said.

Bitter fights over things like teacher evaluation reform and testing have only worsened divides between practitioners and policymakers.

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

«In truth some of the matters that are still open like teacher evaluation — these are not urgent matters,» Cuomo said.

But he had largely refrained from offering charter schools as a key solution to those problems, instead advocating systemic changes like teacher evaluations in traditional public schools.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the Common Core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient distraction from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like teacher evaluations, expanded school choice, or improved accountability systems.

Okabe said the bulk of the settlement proposal has indeed remained the same, but there are still key sticking points like the teacher evaluation system.

There needs to be a collaborative spirit that spurs reaching out to teacher - leaders often, particularly when it comes to important topics like teacher evaluations, tenure, pre-service teacher preparation, and standardized testing.

«We have to make more changes, and we keep narrowing down their level of concerns and rewrite the waiver as they raise questions about parts like teacher evaluations and Common Core,» Miller said.

Not only have many of its office - holding leaders been rejected but core initiatives like teacher evaluations and student data - sharing have met with tepid results.

Although it's data for high - stakes accountability like teacher evaluation and school performance metrics that draws headlines, even data for low - stakes purposes, like academic research, is hard to come by in California.

The newest chancellor of the Board of Regents, she hails from the Bronx and will be tasked with dealing with fraught issues like teacher evaluations, the Common Core and the growing movement to opt out of the curriculum's exams.

``... Do I think they're going to look at things like teacher evaluations?

He understands that he's no longer a governor but a senator — and that to mandate a promising reform like teacher evaluation is to kill it — or render it toothless, just like «HQT» turned out.

Walcott warned that his successor will be in a «unique» situation after he leaves on Dec. 31, jumping in mid-year to take over «a lot of new things that [are] in process right now, like our teacher evaluation, the total ramping up of the new Common Core and making sure we continue in our special ed reform.

Thanks to Lamar Alexander's work over the past week, it shows a willingness to let states take the lead on key issues like teacher evaluation and school turnarounds.

Note: Some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Secretary Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some were in one of the bills passed in July (like Title I portability).

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

A few caveats: First, some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Arne Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some are in one of the bills passed this month (like Title I portability).

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

On Jan. 12, union leaders, teachers, parents and students rallied in the Capitol, where they called issues like teacher evaluations a distraction and demanded instead that Mr. Cuomo increase funding for schools.

Many approaches, like teacher evaluation, simply did not work and caused irreparable harm to teachers and children.

«The current UTLA leadership has basically tried to deal with things in an overwhelmingly defensive and reactive way, taking things issue by issue — like teacher evaluations.»

From «Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force,» by Richard Ingersoll and Lisa Merrill (May 2012) The national survey asked 1,015 new and veteran teachers their views on some of the most contentious issues in U.S. public education, like teacher evaluations and class size, to see if attitudes are shifting with an influx of newer teachers.