Sentences with phrase «merits public support»

We scientists believe that we are, collectively and individually, engaged in an endeavor that merits public support.

Though educators and the public will never agree on precisely what «citizen competence» demands of schooling, the best strategies for teaching reading, or the most appropriate curriculum for cultivating critical thinking or a sense of justice, most will agree that schools that teach or practice racism, deny boys and girls equal opportunities, or neglect mathematics do not merit public support.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in this morning on the LIFO question in the wake of this morning's Q poll that found 85 percent of New Yorkers support the idea that merit, not seniority, should determine which public school teachers get to keep their jobs.

I want to seek and support appointments of well - qualified potential members who, on the basis of their merits, demonstrate a background in serving the public good.

According to the latest Education Next poll, public support for merit pay gained significant ground over the past year and now outdistances opposition by a 2:1 margin.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

National Survey shows increased support for vouchers, but public's views on merit pay, charters, and other policies have not changed, though teacher opposition to reforms intensifies

The public also supports the merit pay concept the president has proposed.

It probes public support for teacher tenure and merit pay.

5) More than the public, teachers support higher salaries, embrace teacher tenure, oppose merit pay, and back the unions that represent many of them.

The share of the public supporting merit pay has remained relatively constant since we first asked this question in 2008.

Public support remains as high as ever for federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, and teacher tenure reform.

Notably, every subgroup in the survey except for public school teachers increased their support of merit pay to a majority of at least 55 percent.

In the summer of 2010, public support for merit pay actually decreased by 1 percentage point when respondents were told that the president favored the idea.

The American public shows growing support for online learning and merit pay for teachers and continued support for accountability, standards, testing, and charter schools — education innovations that have been endorsed by leaders in both major parties.

To assess public support for this policy, commonly known as merit pay, the survey asked respondents in 2009 whether they favored «basing a teacher's salary, in part, on students» academic progress on state tests.»

National Survey also reveals increased support for virtual schooling, support for charter schools rises sharply in minority communities CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

The poll provides strong evidence from a nationally representative sample that most Americans support merit pay for teachers, while teachers oppose the policy by a large margin; there is strong opposition among the public to teacher tenure, while teachers favor it; and teachers are significantly more opposed to the federal RttT program than the broader public.

According to the 2017 Education Next poll, support for merit pay for teachers among the general public has dropped from 67 percent in 2010 to 46 percent in 2017.

These leaders» «merit badges» attest to the time and effort they have put in to creating a school - community that supports excellent neighborhood public schools.

All three families / foundations fund a plethora of organizations, all of which endorse, promote or in some way support one or more of the following public school reforms: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and superintendent training.

If the public ever saw scientists who push the idea of man - caused global warming as fringe elements unable to support the merits of their argument against withering criticism, the issue would implode.

According to a poll funded by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, 74 percent of Oklahoma voters favor choosing appellate judges in contested elections over a merit selection and retention process, and 69 percent support amending the constitution to make this change.

This is apparent also from the majority's candid statement that it was «not confident that a fully rounded, well balanced alternative policy, with comprehensive public support, would or could be developed in the time - frame of any of the suspensions of declaration of invalidity», and even from its obiter which urges the Supreme Court, should it revisit the merits of Rodriguez, to require each applicant for an assisted suicide to go through a court process to ensure the stringent application of safeguards (Carter paras. 334 - 335).