Sentences with phrase «like teacher merit»

The same holds true with polls on complex education issues like charter schools (and issues like teacher merit pay and tenure).

Not exact matches

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

The Governor's speech was warmed - up Bloomberg leftovers — ignore the real problems, blame the teachers for everything that's wrong, and toss in a few failed schemes like individual merit pay.

In this view, Cuomo will cave on most of his other proposals — like merit pay and stiffer teacher evaluation standards — as long as he gets a higher cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Reformers will also quite frequently point to a place like Washington, D.C. and say that reforms, such as to teacher evaluation and merit pay, «worked» there.

Preferred policy areas — like teacher quality, choice, chartering and merit pay — are agnostic to curricular content.

The proposal freed school districts to adjust employee work assignments without negotiating with the teachers union and promised to make objectives like merit pay, scheduling revisions, and tenure reform far more attainable.

The NASPE also advocates the merits of recess because it provides youth with additional opportunities for physical activity beyond the physical education class, but when schools rely on several teachers to supervise great numbers of children on a playground during recess, the resulting issues can be blamed on specific physical activities like tag.

The idea of rounds and clinical - style training for new teachers has a lot of merit, but more generally it seems everyone wants education to be like medicine — or law.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

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.

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

He links Weingarten's merit pay speech in 2008 in which she says she is «willing to discuss new approaches to issues like teacher tenure and merit pay.»

«We weren't so keen on the merit pay system the state was putting forth because we felt like it advanced the idea of competition between teachers, it wasn't necessarily going to be productive for students and it would encourage students to not share best practices and not cooperate in improving student outcomes,» Dawn told StateImpact.

«Short - term, replacement strategies,» the report says, «treat teachers like interchangeable, expendable parts rather than as young professionals meriting sustained investments in their development as part of a community of expert, experienced, teachers.»

ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

which by the way is no small task given the impasse between teachers» unions and lawmakers over things like tenure and merit pay in several states.»

This looks like bad news for proponents of merit - pay for teachers: New York City's Department of Education on Sunday announced it would abandon a three - year, $ 56 million performance - pay program aimed at boosting classroom performance.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

We disagree on much, including big issues like merit pay for teachers and the best strategies for school choice.

Like many education reform initiatives (i.e., charter schools, merit pay), Teach for America was created out of what were once noble intentions: to provide bright, young teachers to fill vacancies in some of our nation's most difficult to staff classrooms.