Sentences with phrase «of teacher quality reforms»

In the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish much.

Let us also try some promising hybrids, such as the Teacher Advancement Program, developed by the Milken Family Foundation, which enhances teacher professionalism in ways that also recall a number of the recommendations of A Nation at Risk and the latter - day «alternative view» of teacher quality reform.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

«Despite all these shortcomings in way in which GCSEs have been reformed, teachers and school leaders have continued, as ever, to ensure that pupils receive high quality learning experiences and can secure the best possible chance of exam success tomorrow.

«Ofsted must now take this opportunity to engage with teachers and school leaders to ensure that inspection can be reformed further so that it accurately reflects the full value that schools add to the quality of children and young people's lives and their future prospects.»

Set to testify before Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality teaReform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality teareform of the state's education system needs to start with quality teachers.

A New York Daily News editorial features findings from the new report from StudentsFirstNY and calls for reform to address the unsatisfactory distribution of teacher quality in New York City.

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

In that position, in addition to his management responsibilities, his grant making work focused on education reform and the development of quality teachers and administrators.

In the section on improving teacher quality, a state's grade depends in part on its embrace of some of the education profession's trendier «reforms.»

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

«We've been working hard since our Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group to deliver reforms to boost the quality of teaching in Australia.

Most of them emphasize reforms to enhance teacher quality, and they question the influence of teachers unions.

This education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona public school who set out on a journey toward improving the quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Mike serves or has served on various advisory boards: transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Education Sector, and others.

Within the exploration of school reform, participants considered topics including high quality teachers, national education reform, public / private partnerships, and implementation strategies.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

They provide simultaneous feedback on the many different kinds of issues worth raising about a reform — issues about the quality of implementation, the meaning various actors ascribe to the reform, the primary and secondary effects of the reform, its unanticipated side effects, and how different subgroups of teachers and students are affected.

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Instead of regarding teacher unions as an obstacle to reform, a perspective I vehemently held for many years, I imagine teacher unions serving as a partner to improve teacher quality, thus, improving student learning.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

Still, the Massachusetts senator has outlined a series of education proposals, putting flesh on the reform bones in some areas, such as his plans for improving teacher quality and...

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

I believe if we can get past the politics of education reform then there truly is a formula to enhance teacher quality and student achievement within all educational settings.

His influence can still be felt most palpably in four areas: teacher unionism; the standards movement; the choice movement; and the adoption of reforms to improve teacher quality.

It would be bigger and better funded, but it would similarly offer extra money to states if they pursued certain types of policies, including preschool expansion, teacher quality reforms, extra funding for schools with extra challenges, and curriculum changes.

Over the past decade, Florida has introduced a comprehensive program of school reform that has five main points: school accountability, literacy enhancement, student accountability, teacher quality, and school choice.

Even more controversial among teachers than Shanker's advocacy of high standards and public school choice was his embrace of a series of reforms intended to improve the quality of the teaching profession.

And other promising, recent reforms have shown that a lack of focus on teacher quality typically leads to disappointment.

Teacher Quality This article from PEN (Public Education Network) offers insight into school reform, including mentions of coaching for school change.

Our Commonwealth and state or territory politicians and political parties generally lack the policies needed to deal successfully with this issue: policies that place teacher quality at the centre of school reform in this country.

A large part of the UAE's educational reforms is a commitment to providing high - quality teacher training for both new and experienced educators.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

His version of reform, judging by his record, centers on boosting teacher quality and supporting students with added services such as after - school programs.

For example, when vouchers were offered as a reform strategy directly against «doing what it takes to put a fully qualified teacher in every classroom,» 84 percent of respondents voted for teacher quality in contrast with 17 percent who voted for vouchers.

The goal of the project is to provide high - quality information and analysis to help stakeholders — especially teachers and policymakers — understand the teacher pension issue and the trade - offs among various options for reform.

They are able to focus on abstract goals — like test scores, teacher quality, or school choice — in debates divorced from the challenges of making reforms actually work in situ.

Second, TNTP does not view policy reform efforts as separate from the daily work of recruiting, training, and hiring high - quality teachers, but rather as an integral part of it.

Over the decade, we have witnessed — perhaps contributed to — the advance of school reform: the proliferation of school choice from vouchers to tax credits, charters, and online learning; the evolution of accountability's focus from schools to teachers; renewed attention to national standards; and a more realistic understanding of the uncertain connection between educational expenditures and school quality.

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Assessing the extent to which these reforms caused the quality of teachers and teaching in New York City to improve presents challenges.

Based on the reforms that occurred immediately prior to and during the Klein administration, it is clear that there has been a concerted effort to alter regulations, policies and practices to improve the overall quality of New York City teachers and especially ensure that students most in need of effective teachers are more likely to get them.

But it's haphazard and the retirement reforms are of varying quality in terms of their utility as retirement policy — eg saving money by making it harder for new teachers to vest.

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Unfortunately, existing research in the area of teacher quality has devoted very little attention to the enactment and implementation of tenure reforms.

Indeed, improving the quality of teachers has been a core strategy for school improvement in the New York City (NYC) reform effort.

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.