Sentences with phrase «penalized teachers»

The 2011 - 12 methodology unfairly penalized some teachers and rewarded others, in my professional opinion, and the ratings were only assigned to the 15 percent of educators teaching either English Language Arts or mathematics in grades four through eight — scarcely a representative subset of the teachers prepared in any of the dozen programs.

Unions brought lawsuits arguing that the measures were arbitrary and capricious, that they unfairly penalized teachers who taught more disadvantaged students, and that they were being inappropriately used to measure things they were not designed for.

Some states and districts have unfairly penalized teachers during this period of transition to common standards of learning.

Members, including chancellor Merryl Tisch, argued the new evaluation system, which was largely prescribed in law by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature, would penalize teachers who work in the most challenging environments and with the neediest students and even prevent talented individuals from entering the field to begin with.

Critics of high - stakes assessments will object that without an exhaustive set of controls, the assessment system will end up penalizing some teachers and schools for circumstances beyond their control.

One concern is that VA measures will incorrectly reward or penalize teachers for the mix of students they get if students are assigned to teachers based on characteristics that VA analysis typically ignores.

One major point of pushback to using test scores in teacher evaluations has been the concern that such tools, known as value - added measures, reflect student demographics more than a teacher's ability, and penalize teachers who take on more difficult students.

Illinois teachers also don't pay into Social Security, which further penalizes teachers, but that's another issue.

The National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) recently collected state - specific information that illuminates how pension plans enact barriers that penalize teachers at various transition points across their careers.

The much anticipated proposal has received some pushback for its reliance on student performance as a key indicator of teacher prep program effectiveness, and its potential to financially penalize teacher candidates for program factors beyond the candidates» control.

But while NEA officials and teachers say they strongly support Obama for a second term, there is widespread dissatisfaction among teachers about federal education policies — especially concerning Obama's promotion of charter schools, and accountability policies that they say unfairly penalize teachers.

«To avoid penalizing teachers who work with our highest - need students, evaluation criteria should be based on student progress and not absolute performance,» Cerf writes.

Falsely identifying a teacher as below the 25th percentile may unfairly penalize that teacher, particularly if the scores were used for high - stakes purposes such as a salary freeze or termination.

The report cited several major objections to tying teacher evaluations to standardized test scores, including concerns that such a system would penalize teachers assigned to the most difficult classrooms.

Reprimanding or penalizing these teachers is unwarranted; they actually may be extremely thoughtful about their adoption and use of technology for their students and themselves.

Not exact matches

I am aware, by repute, of a secular — minded teacher who penalized an orthodox Jewish student for her insistence on referring to the deity as G — d, and her failure to spell the name properly.

«The teachers shouldn't be penalized for the school board's past overspending,» said Maggie Rice, co-chair of the school's parent - teacher organization, who also said many teachers pay for their own teaching materials.

Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher.

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

The regulation approved by a Regents committee would postpone until at least the 2019 - 20 school year any use of standardized state English and math scores in penalizing students, teachers or principals.

Hence, a teacher likely WILL be penalized for having disadvantaged kids in their classroom.

Governor Cuomo admits there's no way to prevent parents from distributing the information on their child's teacher, and he says it would not be appropriate to penalize parents who do so.

And he says if a parent were to pose their teacher's scores on the Internet or social media, they would not be penalized.

If the DOE's major focus is on penalizing its employees for their perceived shortcomings, rather than to devise a process that will help all teachers improve, it is doing a disservice to the schools and the children they serve.»

And he says if a parent were to post their teacher's scores on the Internet or social media, they would not be penalized.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo can not penalize city schools by withholding $ 260 million in state aid over the DOE's failure to get to a teacher evaluation agreement with the union, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice ruled on Feb. 21.

The petition argued that teachers should not be penalized for «objectively presenting the scientific strengths and weaknesses of Darwinian theory» and students should be allowed to express their views on those same strengths and weaknesses.

Such systems are more transparent, tie benefits more closely to contributions, and do not penalize mobility or job shopping among young teachers.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

Initially, teachers who missed more than three days of work were penalized in their evaluation; this has since been changed to six days.

This penalizes good teachers who wish to stay.

He was also penalized by one of the most senseless clauses in the teachers» contract.

Peoria, Ill — A federal jury here this month awarded a public - school teacher $ 514,000 in damages from his employer, Peoria School District 150, after agreeing that he had been penalized for speaking to school - board members.

The Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next included a study by Bob Costrell and Mike Podgursky that showed how teacher pensions concentrate benefits on teachers who spend their entire careers in a single state, penalizing younger teachers, who change jobs and move more often than did previous generations.

It was very much something done to teachers, an inspection, used to penalize or punish teachers whom the principal didn't like... [and] I discovered that if I didn't do something here, my name would get associated with things people hate.

In June, the New York state legislature went along with a union request and determined that teachers wouldn't be penalized for low student - achievement scores.

Those pension formulas, devised by state legislatures, generally encourage teachers who are seeking to maximize their lifetime pension payouts to retire in their mid-50s — effectively penalizing them for teaching longer than that, argues an article appearing in the Winter 2008 issue of the magazine Education Next, published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

However, we must be careful not to penalize those of us working with the highest - needs student populations, and we recommend using a two - step value - added model in order to ensure that there are no incentives against teaching at - risk students, while identifying and rewarding those teachers that are most successful with such students.

These long time delays are penalizing hundreds of thousands of teachers all across the country.

Benefit systems that penalize shorter terms of service are a stumbling block for second - career teachers; comparable salaries and a defined - contribution 401 (k)- type retirement plan make a lateral move more attractive.

They worry that the testing regime erodes teacher professionalism and motivation, stunts the individuality of some children while unfairly penalizing others, and dumbs everyone down to elementary reading and math skills while neglecting gifted students who already possess these skills.

Mrs. Jones may be one of the best teachers on staff, but she's penalized for getting help to improve her teaching.

It is clear, however, that testing — particularly the high - stakes use of test results to reward or penalize students and teachers — has few friends outside the ranks of professional education reformers.

The hope is that if teachers are measured by the improvement — or lack thereof — in their students» achievement, they will work harder to ensure their students learn and consistently unsuccessful teachers will be identified and eventually penalized or let go.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

These systems will face legal challenges that they probably will not overcome once test results are used to fire teachers or reward or penalize them with higher or lower pay.

This does not mean that OUSD teachers should be penalized for their benefits package, but it is important to recognize that the money spent on these benefits is a key part of compensation — especially given the tumultuous national healthcare context.

Teacher pension systems concentrate retirements within a narrow range of the career cycle by penalizing individuals who separate too soon or remain employed too long.

As things are know, we have no agreement as to what the students should know, but people unconnected with the schools are creating tests to measure it anyway, and teachers and schools are being penalized if the students don't know it.