Sentences with phrase «of holding teachers»

Way back when NCLB first reared its ugly head, there was a piece circulating that addressed the folly of holding teachers responsible for the educational outcomes of their students.

LaPres, the drama teacher at Chalmette High, who is an alumna of Teach for America, said she philosophically supports the idea of holding teachers accountable.

Regardless of what the court decides, the idea of holding teachers accountable for student performance seems here to stay.

Educational assessments provide data that give policymakers a «snapshot» of how students are performing and serve as a means of holding teachers, schools, and districts accountable.

Whatever the future uses of value - added measures, the idea of holding teachers accountable for student performance seems here to stay.

And I would go further to say that whole concept of holding teachers and students accountable for these skills doesn't make sense and isn't supported in the research.

Charters use various pay schemes and none of them hold teachers creating «churn.»

Not exact matches

On top of having one of the best cohorts of teachers in the world (even primary school teachers are required to hold master's degrees), Finland has made hands - on subjects a priority.

The no - holds - barred piece draws on recent research published in Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as older reviews of the scientific literature on so - called digital natives, to review whether the recent mania for tech in education has solid scientific foundations.

Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government's decision to legislate a contract and put an end to their collective bargaining process.

Before joining Merrill Lynch in 1999, Ms. Patterson held a number of senior positions with several leading organizations including Goldman Sachs Canada, where she was National Sales Manager of Fixed Income, and the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Board, where she was a fixed income portfolio manager.

Mr. Ma, who holds a bachelor's degree in English from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute, serves on the board of SoftBank Corp..

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would hold schools liable for refusing to allow teachers to be armed for defense of themselves and their students.

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

Some parents and teachers were angered and confused last hurricane season, as the Space Coast braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew, when the district held classes the day of evacuations for the barrier islands.

Today is World Teachers» Day, which is held annually on 5 October as part of a UNESCO initiative to appreciate, assess, and improve the educators of the world.

A social activist for over 30 years and a former teacher, Seth holds a BA in international relations, a BEd from the University of Toronto and an MA in political science from Simon Fraser University.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Do you feel I could live a fine life even if no one shared Jesus with me or I never held any beliefs about one of many teachers two thousand years ago?

The church held appreciation dinners for the teachers, and they began tutoring students and truly getting involved in the life of the school.

So you agree that science teachers who want to teach psuedo - science in place of biology and natural history are unqualified to hold their jobs?

The young man struggled and kicked, but still the teacher held him down until at last he drew him coughing and gasping out of the water.

Parents and teachers who believe that physical restraint and corporal punishment are uncivilized and injurious to personality and hold that permissiveness and affirmation are the sovereign rules of child training deprive the children in their care of an essential element in personal growth.

Therefore church members should not be excommunicated for this view but elders and pastors and seminary and college teachers should be expected to hold the more fully biblical view of grace.»

Though this ringing silence on the subject would have been typically Lutheran — as Luther saw it, the works of humankind appear attractive and good, but they are likely to be mortal sins — I suspect that my Sunday school teachers weren't holding back out of any Reformation - based fear of «works righteousness.»

According to the national economics standards, students should be taught only the «majority paradigm» or «neoclassical model» of economic behavior, for to include «strongly held minority views of economic processes risks confusing and frustrating teachers and students, who are then left with the responsibility of sorting the qualifications and alternatives without a sufficient foundation to do so.»

And now, after the chain of continuity going back to the apostles has been broken, how on earth can anyone identify those following the true Way approved by Jesus Christ, with so many aggressive false teachers claiming to be approved by Christ and holding and gaining such incredible fame and power?

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

The Buddhists held and hold it, at least one sect of Hinduism ditto, Peirce, perhaps the greatest cognitive genius this country ever had, and the Anglo - American (as I call him), A. N. Whitehead held it, as did Haeberlin, a Swiss philosopher and my best psychology teacher at Harvard, Leonard Troland.

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

On the other hand the present form of the apocalypse of Mark 42 is held by some scholars to indicate its composition in the late fifties, and the emergence of the earliest gospel is widely held to have been most probable at a time when the first generation of Christian teachers was beginning to die out, c. A.D. 60 - 70.

NoTheism, It's hard to hold the first Christians responsible for being ignorant of the great teachers of their own past when they put such a premium on being ignorant.

For example, my university did not officially recognize Jewish holidays, but 1/3 to 1/2 of the class would miss those days so, many teachers cancelled class or held some other form of class (like a review session or a Q and A session).

Thanks to such teachers as James and Niebuhr, it holds in balance forces that traditionalists often wrongly consider incompatible: individual growth and a sense of personal limits, reason and revelation, science and faith, faith and doubt, the religious and the secular.

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

Best Teacher in the World: My mom, Robin Held, who was honored as «Educator of the Week» by a local news station.

By writing and teaching publicly, you declare yourself a representative of God's Word and teacher, and as such will be held to a much greater standard by God, accountable for every word you write, every person you influence.

My 6th grade teacher, a nun, said that all of the Christian churches would unite before the end, I guess we shouldn't hold our breath.

Those who bewail the abstractions of theology teachers will be surprised to know of these churchly concerns in systematics classes, as will the Atlantic readers who were recently led to believe that «the hands that shape the souls» of the next generation of pastors do not hold hymnals.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

Thus almost all of the church's teachers have held that the existence of God is knowable, if not indeed demonstrable, even to reason, and that the dependence of all things on their primal cause is as definitely affirmed by the truest philosophy as by a theology whose source is the Christian revelation.

In terms of structure, however, it seems likely that the people who bore various titles in the first century — such as bishop or elder or healer or teacher — were not «officials» holding formal offices, as the bishops, elders, and deacons came to do in the early second century.

A recent seminar in Religion, Drama and Literature at Drew University, held with the help of the Danforth Foundation under the auspices of the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Churches, attracted a good number of teachers of English.

As I held onto the life raft of my mother, my new teacher, Janie Adams, came to coax me to join the others.

Similarly Paul was a called apostle, legitimately recognized by the community as a teacher of faith, yet he approached the Corinthians with exceptional empathic affinity: «Do not think we are dictating the terms of your faith; your hold on your faith is secure enough.

Not many of the cases have held against street preachers or against Christian preaching being classified as hate speech... but the very fact that these cases are being brought and that there are real cases of teachers being sacked or from the health service... I think it is under threat, yes.»

Pagels (1984 p. 101) tells a story of a teacher in post-revolutionary Iran who began a lecture on probability theory by holding up a die which he was going to use in a demonstration.

Jesus Christ's wisdom You believing something doesn't make it true I'm not holding my breath You own those labels Humble yourself and ask Jesus for forgiveness Reprobate minds Jesus told us he would give you reprobate minds After their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears Satan's lies causes confusion Atheists write this garbage Satan is death You are fooling yourself if you don't tell gays they suffer for eternity Tortured for eternity Pathetic Blame it on the Christians for having the guts to tell idiots God's truth Your father Satan End of days taught in Jesus» truth is nothing new to Christians Another rock.

For instance, William Honig, the former state superintendent of schools in California, insisted that teachers instruct children in the common ethical convictions of the American people, «the ideals and standards we as a society hold to be worthy of praise and emulation.»