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.»
See LA School Report (Ratliff Supports Proposal Linking
Teacher Pay to Test Scores) and LA Times (Deasy and new board member Ratliff laud teacher report, Group urges teachers» raises based on student achiev
Teacher Pay to
Test Scores) and LA Times (Deasy and new board member Ratliff laud
teacher report, Group urges teachers» raises based on student achiev
teacher report, Group urges
teachers» raises
based on student achievement).
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 la
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 la
teachers 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.