Sentences with phrase «percent of teachers»

But in Lawrence, explains Schueler, the state «only actively replaced between 8 to 10 percent of teachers,» with about 20 percent more of the teaching population changing over due to resignations and retirements.

Only about 10 percent of teachers make it to ten years.

Only 26 percent of teachers suggest that Congress renew the act as is or with minimal changes.

Thus, those who entered the teaching profession after the age of 25 made up just one - tenth of 1 percent of all teachers in 1990 — 91 but 4.1 percent of all teachers in 2003 — 04.

Teachers of Color in America In 2011, just 18 percent of teachers identified as...

To construct this figure, we first define the top 5 percent of teachers as «high VA» and the bottom 5 percent as «low VA.» Figure 1 displays average test scores for cohorts of students in the years before and after a high - VA teacher arrives.

If we contemplate asking 5 to 10 percent of teachers to find a job at which they are more effective so they can be replaced by teachers of average productivity, states and school districts would have to change their employment practices.

The Qualified Teacher Michael Podogursky («In Search of the Qualified Teacher,» features, Spring 2006) points out that 10 percent of teachers nationwide (unevenly distributed by field and location) don't have regular state credentials.

As we have reflected about the impact of the NBPTS and its board - certified teachers, who still constitute only 1 percent of all teachers, it seems that the National Board and education reformers need to give far more attention to trying to increase the cost - effectiveness and the multiplier effects of board - certified teachers as leaders and exemplars.

In a recent article (see «Valuing Teachers,» features, Summer 2011), Eric Hanushek argues in favor of dismissing the bottom 5 percent of teachers based on their VA scores.

, Spring 2006) points out that 10 percent of teachers nationwide (unevenly distributed by field and location) don't have regular state credentials.

Some 84 percent of teachers worry that technology is contributing to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts, according to the Pew Research Center.

Assuming the upper - bound estimate of teachers» impact, U.S achievement could reach that in Canada and Finland if we replaced with average teachers the least effective 5 to 7 percent of teachers, respectively.

Currently, only three percent of teachers report that their school system offers any training on bereavement.

Although 40 percent of U.S. of students are from ethnically or racially diverse backgrounds — a percentage that is projected to rise to 54 percent over the next 20 years — just 10 percent of teachers are people of color.

According to the study, 43 percent of teachers whose classes consist of a majority of English learners received no more than one inservice training session in the past five years on how to instruct these students.

During our analysis period, roughly 15 percent of teachers in our data switched to a different grade within the same school from one year to the next, 6 percent of teachers moved to a different school within the same district, and another 6 percent left the district entirely.

Assuming the lower - bound estimate of teachers» impact, U.S achievement could reach that in Canada and Finland if we replaced with average teachers the least effective 8 to 12 percent of teachers, respectively.

The New Teacher Project's recent report, The Widget Effect, noted that in the 12 school districts it examined, less than 1 percent of all teachers had received an unsatisfactory evaluation, even in schools where students were chronically underperforming.

A 2014 PDK / Gallup poll found that 76 percent of teachers continued to support the goals of Common Core, but only 9 percent supported using those test scores to evaluate teachers.

But just 4 percent of teachers and 14 percent of district administrators believe that comparing students within a district is important — and just 4 percent and 11 percent, respectively, believe the same about comparing students to others outside the district.

Eighty - four percent of teachers also said they have confidence in their ability to help all of their students succeed academically.

In 2013, the Education Next poll showed 76 percent of teachers and 63 percent of parents supported the standards.

About 25 percent of those teachers produce the level of gap - closing, life - changing growth that students need consistently to catch up and leap ahead to rising international standards.

Findings I found particularly interesting: 83 percent of these teachers say it is absolutely essential for high schools to teach students «to identify the protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.»

I examined five KIPP schools and found that 72 percent of their teachers and school leaders had attended top undergraduate institutions ranked very competitive to most competitive by Barron's.

Only 59 percent of teachers were in class and teaching during unannounced visits to a comparable sample of schools that did not receive an additional teacher.

They say, «Only the least effective 10 percent of teachers have anything to fear from eliminating last - in, first - out rules and reducing due - process.»

More than 90 percent of teachers receive final overall TES scores in the highest two categories.

In 2013, 76 percent of teachers said they supported CCSS and only 12 percent were opposed.

Similarly, the typical U.S. adult gives an A or a B to 51 percent of the teachers at the local school, while Germans rate just 41 percent of their teachers that highly.

For all the commotion, these efforts yielded little noticeable change in most states, with 97 or 98 percent of teachers still rated effective even when no one thinks that offers an accurate picture of what's happening in classrooms.

A growing disconnect is occurring between school leadership and the 40 + percent of teachers who are eager and / or prepared to use technology in the classroom.

When forced to choose between just two options, 71 percent of teachers claim that unions are a force for good, whereas 29 percent see them as a stumbling block to reform.

Seventy percent of the teachers surveyed also gave «excellent» or «good» ratings to using feedback from principals and administrators...

In 2009 10 and 2010 11, 69 percent of teachers were rated «effective,» 14 percent were rated «highly effective,» 2 percent were judged «ineffective,» and another 14 percent were deemed «minimally effective.»

On the flip side, only 2 percent of those teachers whose students came up short of our expectations were back on the job in the fall.

In Pasco, where very few teachers received the highest rating, 94 percent of teachers received the next - best rating of «Effective» — they were considered good, but not amazing.

By estimates I have done, eliminating the bottom 5 percent to 8 percent of teachers could move achievement of US students from below the average for developed countries to near the top.

Fifty - seven percent of the teachers also reacted negatively to the idea, with only 32 % lending it support.

The Washington - based private research group's survey of 1,028 randomly selected teachers, released Aug. 18, found that 42 percent of teachers are age 50 or older, compared with 24 percent in 1996.

The U.S. Department of Education predicts that during the early part of this century, only 5 percent of teachers will be minority teachers though the student minority population will be 40 percent.

A few miles away, however, Pasco County gave this rating to only 5 percent of its teachers.

Only 9 percent of teachers like «personalized» learning as the descriptive phrase, while 55 percent like individualized learning.

In a Public Agenda survey, more than 85 percent of teachers indicated that they would choose a school with well - behaved students and supportive parents over one where they would earn a significantly higher salary.

Nearly 92 percent of teachers who earned bonuses return to the classroom the next school year.

Overall, people are quite pleased with the quality of teachers in their local school, but the public sees 15 percent of teachers as unsatisfactory, and even teachers believe 11 percent are ineffective.

Based on our calculations from state pension plan assumptions, the median state assumes that only 23 percent of teachers will stay for at least 24 years.

Sara Mosle, in her judicious review in the New York Times, notes that although 1 percent of the New York City teachers may have been in the rubber room, 20 percent of teachers quit after the first year, and 40 percent have left after three years.

In Claremont, to take a rather typical example, 57 percent of the teachers who both live and work there voted in the 1997 election, but only 23 percent of the teachers who live but don't work there voted.