Sentences with phrase «on teacher quality»

Extensive research on teacher quality by me and others suggests that the only attribute of teacher effectiveness that stands out is being a rookie teacher.

Addressing basic licensure issues could have a considerable impact on teacher quality.

The national conversation on education policy has focused heavily on teacher quality in recognition of the strong influence of effective teachers on student outcomes.

Moreover, the evidence on teacher quality issues is beginning to win the day.

Unfortunately, limiting access had the opposite effect on teacher quality.

His work on teacher quality focuses on how to identify effective teachers and how to enhance teacher effectiveness.

My research — which has focused on teacher quality as measured by what students learn with different teachers — indicates that a small proportion of teachers at the bottom is dragging down our schools.

Has the policy emphasis on teacher quality led more academically talented people into the teacher workforce, or have accountability reforms driven talent away?

This subsequent research is helping to define how best to use the statistical evidence on teacher quality.

Despite evidence that many schools and districts have considerable discretion when hiring teachers and the existence of an extensive literature on teacher quality, little is known about how best to hire teachers.

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

Information about local district rankings not only alters public readiness to consider educational alternatives, but it also changes public opinion on teacher quality, teachers unions, teacher tenure, and teacher compensation.

These reforms are basically hypotheses — if you do x on teacher quality, you might get y in terms of student learning — but the focus certainly wasn't on results per se.

Moreover, I think there's a tendency to anyone who sees themselves on a mission to save schools to have a hard time honestly reflecting on teacher quality.

State, division, and school report cards were required to include information on teacher quality.

Her interests are centered on education policy, particularly on teacher quality, data use in schools, technology - driven education reform, and military veterans in higher education.

The extensive research on teacher quality has led to two conclusions.

Together, these programs provide critical federal support for the development of effective school leaders and school leadership practices, which have a profound effect on teacher quality and student achievement.

Her research focuses on teacher quality, teacher labor markets, school choice, and issues in which health and education are linked.

More than half the nation's teachers would have fallen short of the federal government's basic definition of «highly qualified» if a current law had been in effect during the 1999 - 2000 school year, concludes a Department of Education report on teacher quality.

The National Center on Teacher Quality produced this landmark report early in 2015.

She served on the Chicago Public Education Fund Educator Advisory Committee, on the National Council on Teacher Quality Teacher Advisory Group, on VIVA's Leadership Council, and most recently, on Advance Illinois» Educator Advisory Committee.

When the National Council on Teacher Quality released last month its report on teacher training programs, I was not shocked to read that the vast majority of colleges and universities do a poor job of preparing their students to teach.

The fact that many of the other signatories are longtime vassals of the NEA and AFT — including the Schott Foundation for Public Education and its Opportunity to Learn campaign (which collected $ 180,000 from the AFT in 2013 - 2014), and Barnett Berry's Center for Teaching Quality (a rival of the reform - oriented National Council on Teacher Quality which collected $ 310,000 from the NEA last year)-- also makes the proposals suspect.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

But Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality says accountability in online teacher preparation is practically nonexistent.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

The three - point plan calls for raising the bar on teacher quality before new educators reach the classroom; making sure that teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers; and helping teachers lead reform Giving Teachers a Voice

Davis's experiences in D.C.'s public schools mirror nationwide trends among black students, a group that often gets shortchanged on teacher quality.

A separate study completed in 2014 by the National Council on Teacher Quality found MPS teachers received better than average compensation during the 2013 - 2014 school year.

The Brookings Brown Center Task Group on Teacher Quality, 2010.

Discussion on teacher quality reference effectiveness rather than qualifications include Higher Ed and professional development.

A report out today from the National Council on Teacher Quality rates more than 1,100 elementary and secondary programs at just over 600 institutions of higher education across the country and concludes that the bar is set too low for entrance into professional training, future teachers are not being adequately prepared for the classroom or new requirements such as the Common Core State Standards, and the nation's expectations are far below those for teachers in countries

Still, Mr. Van Roekel, who renewed attention on teacher quality over the course of his tenure as president, made a point of mentioning its importance during the Representative Assembly.

Look at the Education Trust on teacher quality, for example.

Youll probably see a stepped up effort on the departments part to work with states and — when we can — with local districts to make sure the notification provisions on teacher quality, school choice, and supplemental services are more fully implemented.

In its 2011 report on student teaching, the National Council on Teacher Quality gave WGU a rating of «poor,» however, for not using a rigorous process to select cooperating teachers.

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the rest.

Stanford University's Eric Hanushek, an expert on teacher quality, said the distinction between the two approaches is significant.

With the help of domestic and international teacher education experts, National Council on Teacher Quality takes an in - depth look at admission standards, course syllabi, textbooks, course requirements, student teaching manuals, and graduate surveys, among other sources to score various elementary and secondary teaching courses.

To raise the quality of teaching in Newark, we must focus on teacher quality over seniority,» said Tanisha Garner, a plaintiff and Newark Public Schools parent.

The three - point plan calls for raising the bar on teacher quality before new educators reach the classroom; making sure that teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers; and helping teachers lead reform by helping them become community and policy leaders.

National Council on Teacher Quality attributed the rapid pace of change to the Race to the Top, the federal government competition that had recession - addled states vie for money in exchange for implementing education reforms, such as teacher evaluations.

Written by Daniela Mantilla, Program Associate (more about Daniela) The national debate on teacher quality has put a spotlight on teacher evaluation — on its importance and the poor state of the status quo in reflecting an evaluation system...