Sentences with phrase «partly on student test scores»

Merit pay for teachers based partly on student test scores is «a joke,» he says.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Now, 15 states have policies that base teacher tenure partly on student test scores, up from eight just a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group, StudentsFirst.

Los Angeles - area charter schools have won a $ 60 - million grant to develop a teacher - evaluation system based at least partly on student test scores.

It was only when the development of assessments began, and the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) No Child Left Behind waiver process included clear requirements for evaluating teachers based partly on student test scores, that the unions began to balk.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

Not exact matches

A study of 1,450 Virginia secondary schools, published this month in Psychological Science, suggests that students» scores on state tests may be partly a function of where they live, how poor their classmates are, and whether they have access to competent teachers.

Nerad's letter said the designation is based partly on student achievement, student growth, closing achievement gaps and on - track graduation and post-secondary readiness, but DPI spokesman John Johnson clarified that the designation is solely based on state test scores and 2011 graduation rates.

Across the country, evaluating teachers partly based on student test scores remains very controversial.

But the parties face roadblocks on other issues such as increased payments to fund health benefits and a new teacher evaluation system based partly on students» standardized test scores, she said.

In Louisiana, teacher preparation programs are now judged partly on the test scores their graduates» students earn — part of a growing national movement to assess education schools based on their results.

An education reform bill circulating this week would require kindergarten screening exams and teacher evaluations based partly on test scores, but doesn't update the state's system for holding schools accountable for student performance.

That increase was based partly on rising test scores and partly on the four - year graduation rates at the school, which takes into account not only current students, but also both students who attended Cohen in the past and tranferred to other schools, and those who have transferred into Cohen partway through their high - school careers.