Sentences with phrase «lower standards for teacher»

The academies provision is the most prescriptive option under Title II and could require states to change laws that would lower standards for teacher education programs.

One of our area Assembly members, Democrat Barbara Lifton, doesn't like a SUNY proposal that she believes would lower standards for teachers.

Slekar disagreed strongly with the budget's proposed cuts to teacher training programs, which he said is part of «a targeted dismantling of the profession of teaching,» where lower standards for teachers creates a low - wage workforce.

Dr. Bennett is asking the State Board of Education to lower standards for teachers.

Maybe you agree with Commissioner Elia and Chancellor Rosa, who called the new regulation «an insult to the teaching profession» and said that it would lower standards for teachers.

Not exact matches

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

The consequences of this primary pursuit of pleasure are a general lowering of standards, disrespect for authority, disorderliness, and loss of morale by teachers (or parents) and students alike.

Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were aTeachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were ateachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were approved.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

The Department of Education accused the UFT of trying to «politicize» the issue after it argued that the lower scores undermined the mayor's claims of educational progress and showed that the DOE had not done enough to train teachers for the new standards.

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

Talk about something that lowering standards dating helps the teachers and parents for the school to be engaged before.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

On a first - ever report card of its kind, 13 out of 20 states earned a grade of C or lower for the quality of the standards they have set to assess whether teachers now in the classroom have adequate knowledge of subjects they teach.

The results, which showed far lower rates of proficiency than the prior test, which was tied to the previous state standards, provoked an outcry from teachers and parents, who complained that schools and students had not been adequately prepared for it.

Weingarten: Lowering vesting standards to no more than three years... would provide an incentive for more teachers to leave the profession earlier rather than later.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

For instance, if teachers believe that less should be expected of minority children, they might lower their academic standards when confronted with a classroom that has a high share of black or Hispanic students.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepaTeacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepateacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

«There is also considerable evidence that it is schools in isolated and deprived areas where educational standards are low that are losing out in the recruitment stakes for both leaders and teachers.

These include specific training and new resources for school teachers and other teaching staff, a new national top - up swimming programme for schools with the lowest swimming attainment levels, and achievement badges to celebrate the success of pupils achieving statutory standards.

Although presented by supporters as an opportunity for states to put forward their best and most innovative ideas, in fact the selection criteria amounted to a detailed list of commitments in areas ranging from state standards and data systems to teacher evaluation systems and strategies to turn around low - performing schools.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

Admissions standards for U.S. teacher colleges are significantly lower than in other nations considered to be education leaders.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Teachers can now be instructed to lower rigor and grading standards, pass everyone, and even give non-achieving students dual college credits for nothing more than showing up once in a while!

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

We sorted site - visit schools into high (one standard deviation or more above the mean), medium, and low (one standard deviation below the mean) data - use groups, and we selected six high data - use schools for case study analysis of the interview data from principals and from teachers.

States must either adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or formulate a set of standards that are deemed «College - and Career - ready»; implement a plan to improve the lowest performing schools; and design an evaluation program for teachers and principals.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

He has pressed for teacher tenure reform, more rigorous standards for students to be «college and career ready,» the growth of charter schools, and forceful interventions in low - performing schools.

Because of the higher demands placed on the candidates and the host school, Merritt says it's now standard to expose teacher candidates to his school's improvement plan and work with them to develop high - impact strategies for target groups such as boys and students from low - income families.

As lawmakers draw closer to finalizing a state budget that has drawn the most attention for how it may boost teacher pay and cut Medicaid, another battle is taking place at the legislature, too — over lowering standards for North Carolina's growing number of charter schools.

We are alarmed by the section of the law that allows states to authorize the establishment of alternative - track teacher education academies, with lower standards and accountabilty for teaching qualifications.

Assign numerical value to standards included in the teacher summary rating form: Not Demonstrated - 0; Developing - 1; Proficient - 2; Accomplished - 3; Distinguished - 4 for past two years (2011 - 12 & 2012 - 13); divide total by number of ratings; sort highest to lowest.»

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

We need to transform education into a true profession with standards for performance, metrics for measuring performance, and accountability that celebrates high performance and jettisons low performing teachers and administrators from the system.

In exchange for relief, the administration is requiring a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that include meaningful teacher and principal evaluation systems, make sure all students are ready for college or careers, upgrade academic standards and lift up their lowest - performing schools.

By contrast, Early Head Start teachers do not even have to have a bachelor's degree, and the standards for caregivers at scores of unaffiliated day care centers across the country are typically low — with just a high school diploma and some short training courses considered sufficient.

In using ARRA funds, states and school divisions must advance core reforms identified in the legislation, including: implementation of college - and career - ready standards and assessments for all students; establishment of preschool to postsecondary and career longitudinal data systems; improvement in teacher quality — especially for students most at risk of academic failure; and improvement of low - performing schools through effective interventions.

The CTA and some key Democrats, including Patrick O'Donnell, D - Long Beach, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, also argued that districts could make four or five years standard for probation to save money through lower salaries for probationary teachers.

WESTERVELT: And, David, Walsh worries that, you know, talk of teacher shortage will prompt school boards to simply lower standards and qualifications for prospective teachers, which, in her view, would be disastrous.

«Teachers in LAUSD have uncovered the unanswered question about Common Core implementation — how do we raise the academic standards for all students when our most vulnerable children, those in special education and our English Learners, have historically struggled to meet the lower bar set by previous standards,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles.

In 2006, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, published a lengthy report on the state of teacher education, calling it a «troubled field» and criticizing schools of education for having low admission and graduation standards, and «wide disparities in institutional quality.»

Critics rightly point out that Perry, CPC, and Abecedarian were intensive programs with high standards, including allowing only teachers with bachelor's degrees, full - day services, low child - to - teacher ratios, parent engagement, and some social services for families.

Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Dale Kooyenga want to take away the locally controlled and accountable school board from the people of Milwaukee, while lowering teacher licensure standards for the educators teaching those students, but the people of Milwaukee are fighting back.

While it can be tempting for states to turn to short - term solutions to a teacher shortage, often by lowering the standards to become a teacher, such solutions can exacerbate the problem over the long haul.