Sentences with phrase «of teacher merit»

Similar studies of teacher merit pay have shown null results in New York City and Chicago.

«Contrary to the claims of advocates of teacher merit pay, relatively few private - sector workers have pay that varies in a direct formulaic way with their productivity — and the share of such workers is probably declining,» Haywood states.

No doubt, this whole exercise might be nauseating to opponents of teacher merit pay, vouchers, and limits on collective bargaining.

The biggest drop in support among Democrats when informed of Trump's views, 14 percentage points, was for his support of teacher merit pay.

Yet only a handful of studies have evaluated the impact of teacher merit pay on student achievement.

Not exact matches

Such a distinction has merit in helping to bring out the full content of the message of the primitive prophets and teachers; but it would not do to identify the «preaching» with the prophets and the «teaching» with the teachers.

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

When it's time to teach the merits, uses, and hows of technology, Waldorf school teachers do so.

The teachers, students and parents are still getting used to it, but see the merit, as I do, of teaching children how to be better people.

The meetings also will touch on issues of school funding, teacher retention, merit pay and school violence, according to Lewis» letter.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed incentives, including merit pay, so the city can retain and recruit the best teachers during his State of the City address last Thursday in the Bronx.

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

He pointed to Newark, N.J., which offers merit pay to teachers, as a prime example of what the city should be doing.

Also at 7 p.m., the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club hosts a debate on the merits of a state constitutional convention, with United Federation of Teachers» Briget Rein and attorney Richard Emery, Hudson Guild, 441 W. 26th St., Manhattan.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said: «Delegates representing every part of the teachers union got a chance to have their voice heard on this issue and their message is clear — individual merit pay hasn't worked and doesn't work for schools and kids.»

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Bloomberg warned of more harsh cuts, but said he was «optimistic» about a deal on merit - based teacher layoffs.

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.

The Massey plan would also expand the number of competitive, specialized high schools from nine to 13, increase the number of vocational / trade schools, and implement merit pay for teachers, which the Bloomberg administration tried on a limited basis.

The union opened the door to merit pay with the creation of three new teacher designations.

On the proposal to give raises to teachers who oversee high - performing students, he said: «I couldn't believe that the governor of New York proposed merit pay.

That ad, which served as the basis for Wednesday's rally, accused de Blasio of blocking access to charter schools for minority students, and FES was left defending its merits after some critics — many aligned with local teachers» unions — accused it of «race - baiting.»

Bloomberg also staked out other stands sharply at variance with those of the teacher's union, calling for merit pay, an increase in charter schools and shutting down more schools he considers failing.

In his State of the State address on Jan. 21, Governor Andrew Cuomo tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget: individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

Finding arguments put forth by KIPP Academy to be «without merit,» the United States Court of Appeals today rejected an attempt by KIPP to use the federal court to avoid arbitrating a contract dispute with the United Federation of Teachers.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

In this view, Cuomo will cave on most of his other proposals — like merit pay and stiffer teacher evaluation standards — as long as he gets a higher cap on the number of charter schools in the state.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

Rich donors tend to be more supportive of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive of paying more taxes for early childhood education and federal spending to improve schools.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

In 2009 Education Next asked a representative sample of Floridians their opinion about teacher tenure and merit pay, the very issues that have just landed on Florida Governor Charlie Crist» s desk.

No individual reform on the public agenda — neither merit pay, class size reduction, salary jumps for teachers, nor Race to the Top — can claim or even hope for anything close to that level of impact.

Teachers within the national system have to go through the arduous process of submitting an application to gain access to the upper pay scale, but TSAT's teaching staff will be automatically entitled to these rewards from 2018, so long as their performance merits it.

Across the nation, a growing number of parents, teachers, students, and organizations are questioning the tests» merits.

But that drop in those who have no definite opinion does not change the level of support for merit - based teacher policy.

Debate rages over the merits of various pedagogical strategies, and even teacher educators and certification proponents have a hard time defining a clear set of concrete skills that makes for a good teacher.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school.

Dismissing Colorado's assessment and teacher evaluation framework as insufficient, her team created their own assessments and a «Continuous Improvement of Teacher Effectiveness» evaluation system, which would be the basis for merit pay for teteacher evaluation framework as insufficient, her team created their own assessments and a «Continuous Improvement of Teacher Effectiveness» evaluation system, which would be the basis for merit pay for teTeacher Effectiveness» evaluation system, which would be the basis for merit pay for teachers.

With this logic in mind, we examined the effect of the New York City school - wide merit pay program at schools with different numbers of teachers with test - taking students.

With this in mind, we see the results of our study as representing the effect of group - based teacher merit pay for schools that are already under accountability pressure.

In sum, we observe strong differences between the more - and less - educated white respondents on assessments of school quality, school spending, teacher salaries, immigration policy, teacher tenure, merit pay, and school vouchers.

Recently, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) conducted a policy experiment to test whether merit pay given to all teachers at an effective school could increase student achievement.

The New York City bonus - pay program provides us with a valuable opportunity to study the effect of merit pay for teachers in an experimental setting.

I suspect many teachers are intimidated by the thought of building a Web page; others don't think they have enough information to merit their own page.

Meanwhile, teachers remain largely united in their opposition to the concept: fully 78 % of teachers express opposition to merit pay, against just 15 % in support.

In math, where Touchstone leaders were unable to hire a master teacher last year, Merit Prep's students had made three - fourths of a year of growth by March — solid results, but not enough to close achievement gaps.

As the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently reported, «In 22 school districts whose Q Comp practices were analyzed by the Star Tribune in 2009, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the preceding school year.

In Alabama, the state's «Race to the Top» application originally proposed merit pay and a «new salary schedule that would give more money to math, science and special - education teachers,» but that portion of the application was deleted, reported the Press - Register (Mobile), «after Alabama Education Association leader Paul Hubbert wrote state Superintendent Joe Morton a letter... opposing them»

A comprehensive system of merit pay could reward the best teachers and encourage the least - effective teachers to leave the profession.