Sentences with phrase «number of effective teachers»

[10] To date, these systems have reported large numbers of effective teachers, and, previously, I noted it is unlikely that 98 percent of teachers really are effective, if the word has any meaning.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

Kati Haycock and Eric Hanushek discussed the importance of identifying ineffective teachers in a forum that appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next about strategies for increasing the number of effective teachers in high - poverty schools.

Many policymakers interpreted these findings to mean that teacher quality rests with the individual rather than the school and that, because some teachers are more effective than others, schools should concentrate on increasing their number of effective teachers.

In a new article on the Education Next website, Kati Haycock of the Education Trust and Eric Hanushek of Stanford University engage in a debate over the most promising strategies for increasing the number of effective teachers in high - poverty schools.

But boosting the numbers of effective teachers in high - need schools is not a simple matter.

by Kati Haycock and Eric Hanushek In this forum, two experts debate the best ways to identify effective teachers and to increase the number of effective teachers in high - poverty schools and communities.

Parents and other citizens won't stand for years of further delay in increasing the number of effective teachers.

The Hechinger Report recently spoke with Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a nonprofit advocacy research organization dedicated to increasing the number of effective teachers.

The schools in your community need your skills and experience to increase the number of effective teachers in your area.