Sentences with phrase «link teacher pay raises»

The program will link teacher pay raises and performance reviews directly to student achievement, and even allows a teacher with chronically low - performing students to be fired.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

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Concerned that this system makes it difficult to retain talented teachers and provides few incentives for them to work to raise student achievement while in the classroom, many policymakers have proposed merit - pay programs that link teachers» salaries directly to their apparent impact on student achievement.

While teachers» salaries have declined relative to other occupations requiring a college degree since midcentury, there is no evidence to suggest that across - the - board raises would improve student outcomes enough to justify the expense, particularly if they were not accompanied by changes that would link teachers» pay to their performance in the classroom.

See LA School Report (Ratliff Supports Proposal Linking Teacher Pay to Test Scores) and LA Times (Deasy and new board member Ratliff laud teacher report, Group urges teachers» raises based on student achievTeacher Pay to Test Scores) and LA Times (Deasy and new board member Ratliff laud teacher report, Group urges teachers» raises based on student achievteacher report, Group urges teachers» raises based on student achievement).

The provocative study raises new questions about how recently revamped teacher - evaluation systems — and pay schedules linked to them — shape teacher behavior.

Van Roekel said performance pay, charter schools and links between student and teacher data raise difficult issues for his union.

The program rewards states that promise to raise achievement using the Obama administration's preferred methods: adopting common core standards, promoting charter schools, linking teacher pay to student performance and turning around low - achieving schools.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said he supports merit pay for teachers — a practice linking raises or bonuses to student achievement.

The big issues for the Education Equality Project were school and teacher accountability, school choice, and merit pay, whereas the Broader, Bolder Approach emphasized linking what happens in schools to the broader environment within which children are raised, including their family and community economic standing, health and nutrition.