Sentences with phrase «paying teachers based on student test scores»

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Though some of the E4E recommendations and strategies are similar to those proposed by United Teachers of Los Angeles, the union does not support paying teachers based on their students test scores.

Not exact matches

His proposals to determine the fate of teachers» pay and jobs and schools» funding and survival based on students» standardized test scores look like more pay - to - play politics in Albany.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

The Houston school district has launched a large - scale plan to pay teachers bonuses based on the year - to - year improvement of their own students» test scores.

As early as 1710, in England, teachers were paid based on their students» test scores in reading, writing, and arithmetic.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuters)- Following weeks of debate and national attention, Florida Governor Rick Scott on Thursday signed into law a measure that will end tenure for new public school teachers and base pay more directly on student test scores.

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

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It requires teachers to be dismissed, retained, promoted, demoted, and paid based primarily on the test scores of their students.

Rhee, a veteran of the reform - minded Teach for America organization, became both demonized and lionized as she fired hundreds of teachers and convinced the local teachers» union to agree to merit pay based on student test scores.

In Florida, the state paid Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a for - profit textbook publisher, $ 4.8 million to develop classroom observation methods and nearly $ 4 million to the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit, to create a value - added model for grading teachers based on student test scores, according to state officials.

Changes championed by these leaders include incentive pay for teachers based on test scores, greater school choice and new data systems that track the performance of students, teachers and schools.

If pay is based on students» test scores, will only teachers in the testing grades be eligible?

For example, one controversial proposal is the Pay for Performance plan which, if passed, would provide cash bonuses for the state's top teachers based on student test scores and evaluations of the teachers» classroom performance.

The bill, like Senate Bill 6, requires school systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores, which assessment experts say is an ineffective evaluation method.

Instead of paying teachers based on seniority, North Carolina is experimenting with alternative models — such as paying teachers more based on student test scores or for agreeing to accept additional duties or leadership roles.

Dean Benbow: Our National Center on Performance Incentives conducted a three - year scientific experiment in Nashville in which we paid teachers substantial bonuses based on student test scores.

She has eluded to perhaps the best suggestion to date to fix our schools, a comprehensive and challenging curriculum in every discipline at every grade, but somehow this message has been lost in all the hoopla over merit pay, charter schools, evaluating teachers based on their students» test scores, collective bargaining rights, etc..

Prince George's is entering the third year of a performance pay program that offers some teachers up to $ 10,000 based on good evaluations, improved student test scores and other factors.

A voluntary performance pay program to begin this fall could add $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 to D.C. teachers» salaries, based on significant improvement in student test scores and other yet - to - be specified criteria.

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.

A $ 100 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg helped secure the Newark Teachers» Union's assent to a contract that pays teachers based in part on their students» test scores — after which the union president was nearly ousted laTeachers» Union's assent to a contract that pays teachers based in part on their students» test scores — after which the union president was nearly ousted lateachers based in part on their students» test scores — after which the union president was nearly ousted last year.

The federal lawsuit, which is also backed by the National Education Association and the Florida Education Association, says that some teachers» rights are being violated because they are being assessed based on students that sometimes aren't even in their classroom — a byproduct, critics say, of the law's requirement that test scores account for a part of educators» pay even if there are no state exams in that grade or subject area.

Anyone who has been paying attention to education matters the past few years has surely noticed the understandable uproar over the attempt to rate teachers based on student standardized test score «growth.»

The idea of «pay for performance,» which involves supplementing teacher pay or providing bonuses based on student test scores, is one of the latest educational fads to sweep the country.

Suburban districts, after all, also have to deal with quality - blind seniority - based privileges such as reverse - seniority layoff rules, pay scales that favor seat time over performance, and restrictions on the use of objective student test score growth data from use in teacher evaluations.

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