Sentences with phrase «of teacher pay»

But I added that the overall state of teacher pay needs attention.

And teachers in right - to - work states with higher levels of teacher pay and education funding aren't striking at all.

And, it would require that half of teacher pay increases be based on student performance.

How to explain such relentless reductions in class size, especially when they seem to be at the expense of teacher pay?

Mostly lost in the back and forth was the more complex reality of teacher pay.

It can take seven steps to reach the top of the teacher pay ladder in one district and 30 steps in another district.

It found that 94 percent of teachers pay for classroom supplies, spending an average of $ 479 a year.

Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess writes that the new study obscures the issue of teacher pay reform rather than shedding light on it.

Vanderbilt education researchers Matthew Springer, Lam Pham and Tuan Nguyen synthesized 44 primary studies on the impact of teacher pay incentives on student test scores.

Awarding only 25 percent of teachers pay bumps introduces an element of competition into schools, which, as many educators say, is contrary to what teachers do to ensure their students» academic achievement.

In «Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary Schedule,» Jacob Vigdor looks at how the current system of teacher pay offers too few rewards for younger teachers.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

And the Government needs to recognise that it must deal with the growing uncompetitiveness of teacher pay.»

Topics of published work in this area include studies of the stability of value - added measures of teachers, the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement, and the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market.

A tired story repeats itself every year when state rankings of teacher pay are released.

The latest exercise in mythmaking is a Time article titled, «Teachers Make Less Than Peers in Almost Any Other Job,» which draws on an international survey of teacher pay published by the OECD.

,» which draws on an international survey of teacher pay published by the OECD.

Leave it to the left - leaning teacher - union - friendly Center for American Progress to come out with a flatulent report lamenting the allegedly lousy state of teacher pay in the U.S. Even worse, much of the acolyte media dutifully bought the study hook, jive and half - truth.

«Add to this the new high - stakes accountability, in particular the regime of Ofsted inspection, and the suppression of teacher pay and budget cuts and it's no wonder so many teachers are deciding it is no longer for them.»

Richwine and Biggs make an argument that some estimates of the current levels of teacher pay advantage are biased because of failures to control for cognitive ability and so on.

It led to the state legislature's passage four years later of the Teacher Pay Equalization Act, which mandated that black teachers in the state were entitled to the same pay as white teachers.

Salam goes on to cite Jacob Vigdor, who tackled the problem of teacher pay schedules for us in his 2008 article «Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary Schedule.»

For instance, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R - Tenn., who served as U.S. secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, extolled the benefits of teacher pay - for - performance programs — and prodded one of the nation's top teachers» union officials on the topic.

«There are hundreds of districts working on performance pay plans; many states passed legislation requiring some type of performance pay for teachers, or some portion of teacher pay,» said Dr. Marc J. Wallace Jr., founding partner of the Center for Workforce Effectiveness, which is allied with the Center for Policy Research.

4) Members of the public are less inclined to favor using additional funds for class - size reduction if they know its cost relative to the cost of teacher pay and the purchase of new books and technologies.

A successful teacher walkout in West Virginia has brought the topic of teacher pay to the forefront of public conversation.

After a morning announcement of his teacher pay plan in Guilford County, McCrory pitched his proposal yesterday afternoon to teachers at the Emerging Issues Forum — and received a tepid response.

The NEA teacher rankings have been used as a measuring stick for legislators and education groups to gauge the adequacy of teacher pay.

So, using antequated testing will be the downfall of teacher pay being attached to student performance.

Urban school improvement initiatives range from a host of teacher pay - for - performance reforms, to «small schools» reconfiguration, to charter school choice and high - achieving academies.

A cross country analysis of teacher pay and pupil performance.»

For an honest assessment of teacher pay, stick with the Biggs - Richwine study.

The superintendents were encouraged by the prospect of a teacher pay raise as well as the Career Pathways plan that is contained in both the Governor's budget as well as the House plan.

Back on the subject of teacher pay, Horn said, «I'm thinking about the same thing we're all thinking about, though — the projected [revenue] shortfall.»

Rep. Craig Horn (R - Union), one of the key legislators behind the pilot program, said he's not a fan of teacher pay for performance either.

In his review of the teacher pay study, AEI's Rick Hess analyzes the rigidity of the current system, «In a routine day, a 4th grade teacher who is a terrific English language arts instructor might teach reading for just 90 minutes.

The fact that governments (including school districts) are major employers, especially in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.

A comparison among the 50 largest U.S. school districts reveals that Chicago teachers now rank among the top three highest - paid groups of teachers in each of the three categories of teacher pay measured by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Specifics of teacher pay should largely be left to local decision making.

«They don't talk in favor of teacher pay.

The practice of teachers paying for school supplies caused Congress in 2002, to pass a bill giving teachers a $ 250 tax deduction for classroom supply spending.

Despite proliferating chatter about the need to reform teacher compensation, the bulk of teacher pay remains fundamentally unchanged.

Prior to this amendment, the Wyoming House of Representatives approved an increase of teacher pay of $ 6.6 million, but the House instead matched the Senate's $ 5.9 million.

The single salary schedule has ruled the delivery of teacher pay for decades, despite long - standing criticism that it fails to link some portion of teachers «pay to their performance.

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis have traded barbs over issues of teacher pay and education funding, while similar conversations are playing out in legislative races throughout the state.

Thank goodness Michael Gove is going to smash planning rules and other bureaucracy to make it much easier to set up new independent state schools that parents can switch to and transfer the state per - pupil funding, while also tearing up the current system of teacher pay and conditions.

The government needs to recognise that funding cuts are also now driving up workload, and the Government needs to recognise that it must deal with the growing uncompetitiveness of teacher pay.»

Goldhaber's work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K - 12 level, including the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement, and the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market.