Sentences with phrase «of teacher bashing»

The conclusion: over a decade of teacher bashing have started to take a toll leading to a dramatic drop in job satisfaction and concerns about teaching and learning conditions.

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Another recounts an afternoon of bashing former co-workers with a fellow teacher from Northwestern University.

«No, this stuff isn't getting to me, the shootings, the knifings, the beatings, old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security checks, teachers being thrown out of a fourth floor window because they don't give A's.

Maybe when her feelings are no longer so raw she will be more willing to do more than bash her boss, fellow teachers and the parents of the students she prefesses to care so much about.

I know it's very fashionable to bash teachers» unions, but let's hear a tinyt bit of outrage against those who feed their greed in all other sectors of society.

retirees (like you) were at the rally... why don't you do something constructive with your time instead of bashing teachers?

United Federation of Teacher President Michael Mulgrew called the mayor's proposal «teacher bashing.Teacher President Michael Mulgrew called the mayor's proposal «teacher bashing.teacher bashing.»

Ms. Moskowitz bashed Mr. de Blasio for trying to foil the expansion of her controversial charter schools network and took aim at the United Federation of Teachers and the labor - backed Working Families Party for opposing her at every turn.

«In speaking with the theme, we need a counterrevolution to what's been going on to speak against current rhetoric of bashing teachers and bashing public schools.

After her talk, an elementary school principal sought her out and complained that faculty members in Kentucky's colleges of education were bashing the state's reform effort and failing to train teachers to understand the new way of thinking.

«If we are attentive to the broader assault on public education by the forces of neoliberalism,» said Madeloni, «we have to critique Darling - Hammond at the very least for naïveté about these forces when she allows herself and her work to be taken up by them, when she allows the discourses they use to bash teacher education to become part of her rationales.»

She explained that many of my old teachers were still on faculty and were nervous I was going to get up on stage and teacher bash.

With the negative press about teachers being so prevalent in the United States media at this time, I am curious how one may be looking at teacher pension, pay etc. and not have this as part of the «teacher bashing».

The lesson of the case, she said, is that «we need to solve the very real teacher - shortage problem — not make matters worse by bashing and scapegoating the dedicated educators who teach our children.»

Another caricature is that anyone critical of teachers unions must be bashing teachers.

The bashing of school choice policies continued throughout that meeting, and DeVos continued to challenge teachers with statements like this:

There you are, trying desperately to stop Miranda in year 8 from bashing Julia over the head for the umpteenth time as Mrs X announces she's resigning five minutes before the end - of - term deadline leaving you with cover teachers from now until Christmas, while these guys think they're improving the country by sitting in parliament chatting about nothing and scoring points.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

Worse, his teacher's union - bashing film was embraced by conservatives, one of whom said his Oscar snub is «the price a political apostate pays in Hollywood for straying off the liberal plantation.»

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.

Read Windham bash teachers, the NAACP and the rights of LGBTQ kids in his own words here.

This alleged «teacher bashing» couldn't be further from the truth, but nevertheless, too many teachers have bought this nonsense hook, line and sinker and have become true believers of all things union.

Just as these teachers would be entering their peak years of effectiveness, all too frequently they are leaving the teaching profession, or more infrequently, leaving Wisconsin to teach in other states where teachers are not bashed 24/7 and still have the opportunity to earn compensation that keeps them in the middle class.

Education writer RiShawn Biddle does an excellent job of poking holes in the teacher bashing argument, claiming, among other things, that Weingarten «is just using a rhetorical trick often deployed by teachers unions and other education traditionalists to oppose school reform.

Bashing teachers in regard to Title 1 public schools has been so effective that many Americans believe all teachers in public schools are lazy and ineffective when most public schools are doing well and the Title 1 public schools are only a minority of the public schools in America.

Change might be able to deal with the problems but there will never be any real change for Title 1 public schools while Americans are willing to listen to the politicians about bashing teachers instead of understanding and dealing with the problems.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten bashed the report, huffing that it's full of «ridiculous assertions» says,

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

Ty Goddard, of the Education Foundation, said the results for the UK were an «important snapshot of education achievement» - and they should not be used as an «excuse to have a national «bash a teacher» day».

Instead of bashing our teachers, we should be conveying recognition, accolades, tributes and positive acknowledgments.

For me, this issue was always about bashing teachers, and solving mid-life crises of individuals who take their ideas of education from Welcome Back, Kotter or Leave it to Beaver reruns,

Recognizing that it's politically unwise to attack teachers, I would do so obliquely, bashing the unions to which most of them belong.

Some weeks, she sends hundreds of 140 - character missives to her 20,000 followers, such as «NCLB = The Death Star of American Education» or «Let's have a contest: what name for those who oppose teacher - bashing, privatizing, test - loving deformers?»

Here is the uneven distribution in teaching experience after 30 years of billionaires constantly bashing public school teachers:

And I think if we end up in a place... where we have no protection against firing for reasons other than competence, teaching — which is already a fairly unattractive occupation because of all the teacher - bashing that's going on — will become an even more unattractive occupation.

Secretary Clinton absolutely did not mean that we should seek to close nearly half the schools in the country, as was almost gleefully reported in a variety of right wing media outlets (who in their normal daily business, it should be noted for irony's sake, are all too happy to bash public schools full of unionized teachers).

We've witnessed the onslaught of message - laden documentaries such as Waiting for «Superman» and The Lottery, which are celebrated by many and derided as teacher - bashing propaganda by others.

Although a number of public education advocates, including myself, have been critical of Weingarten on some issues, I have tremendous respect for her and the role she has played in the effort to speak up for teachers on numerous occasions including this week's decision by Time Magazine to run with a cover bashing the nation's public school educators.

Marie is a mother, artist, teacher, education activist, former NJ State Legislature candidate and is «that» teacher in the infamous Chris Christie You - Tube video of the thug bashing teachers.

- STOP BASHING TEACHERS; they are the ones raising the students in lieu of absent parents / guardians.

He is the author and salesman of many of the privatization and teacher - union - bashing schemes in Los Angeles.

TIME.com — Removing the lowest performing educators would pay big dividends, but saying so invites charges of «teacher bashing».

Again you hit the nail squarely on the head citing right wing politics and an agenda of union bashing as the reason behind the current climate of teacher blame.

Ms. Moskowitz bashed Mr. de Blasio for trying to foil the expansion of her controversial charter schools network and took aim at the United Federation of Teachers and the labor - backed Working Families Party for opposing her at every turn.

Listen to PRI's Lance Izumi discuss the case of a Southern California school teacher who was fired for bashing the military in the classroom on the nationally - syndicated «Lars Larson Show».

Malloy's willingness to engage in some of the most outwardly heinous aspects of the corporate reform movement such as teacher bashing were only outdone by his actions which have positioned him as one of the most aggressive pro-corporate education reform Governor's in the country.

The backdrop of the story is that in order to persuade Connecticut's public schools teachers to overlook Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's three year record of demeaning, denigrating and bashing teachers and the teaching profession, Malloy's supporters have recently sent out a series of campaign pieces claiming that;

After all, it is one that actually casts defenders of traditional public education as crusaders against plutocrats who simply want to bash teachers, end public education and abandon democracy.

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