Sentences with phrase «political issue of teacher»

Michigan politicians have touted Senate Bill 103 as a workable solution to the divisive political issue of teacher evaluation standards.

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A follow - up inspection published in 2014 reported that «at the time of the emergency inspection, the head teacher was unaware of the regulations regarding the promotion of partisan political views in teaching... This issue has now been appropriately addressed... The regulation is now met.»

A viewer could be forgiven for not recognizing that entity as the political arm of the statewide teachers» union, New York State United Teachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions edteachers» union, New York State United Teachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions edTeachers: the advertisement, which criticizes Mr. Hanna for his positions on issues like hydraulic fracturing, women's health issues and gun control, never mentions education.

Flanagan's post as chair of the education committee has helped him grow in prominence, particularly as issues like the Common Core standards, teacher evaluations and charter schools have dominated the political landscape.

At one point, when the union members were considering symbolic resolutions that offered NYSUT's support or opposition for a variety of political issues, the teachers voted to remove Cuomo's name from a pledge to support the Women's Equality Act, which he championed.

Here, the basic lesson is that such teaching has always been difficult — constrained by political forces, legal challenges, parental objections, limited class time, and understandably hesitant teachers who are ill - prepared for the complex task of teaching divisive issues.

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The National Education Association, long a target of conservative criticism for its stands on political and social issues, is under siege again — this time for its advice to teachers on handling the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

In a 2011 issue of Science magazine (summarized without a paywall here), Penn State political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer surveyed a nationally representative sample of public high - school biology teachers and found that only 28 percent of them consistently implement National Research Council standards for the teaching of evolution.

Our Commonwealth and state or territory politicians and political parties generally lack the policies needed to deal successfully with this issue: policies that place teacher quality at the centre of school reform in this country.

Through the use of front groups, the teachers unions are able to disguise their role in funding these activities and thus their self - interest in a host of political issues.

Yet much of the political and scholarly attention in the area of teacher quality has to date focused on the issues of teacher recruitment, preparation, compensation, and distribution.

The findings are important because of what they may contribute to the debate over changing how teacher evaluation is conducted, which has emerged as a hot - button political issue favored by the so - called education reform movement.

The choice of the Democrat - turned - Republican — a former teachers» union lobbyist and Reagan administration official — drew immediate praise from political conservatives who support her position on two pressing education - related issues: affirmative action and bilingual education, both of which Ms. Chavez opposes.

In fact, it seems whenever teachers try to start airing some of these issues (usually if they are harmful to their students) they pay a political / job - related price.

They told us that, on a more personal level, teachers use research for professional nourishment, to become more critical consumers of evidence, especially in the face of media rhetoric and political reporting of education issues.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.

Teachers need not endorse any particular viewpoint or policy proposal in the current debate over the availability of firearms to help students explore the power of young people to galvanize public opinion and political support behind issues they care about.

If there were a move to make unions illegal, for example, political contributions would come fast and furious, though virtually none of that money could be attributed to a stance on something as specific as tenure or teacher evaluations per se, even though those are issues unions would clearly also like to influence.

The conference will also include «core training,» which, according to the program's introductory letter, will «offer concrete guidance on three pressing issues: countering the destabilizing threat of Parent Trigger, understanding teacher evaluation, and building better schools through community and political organizing.»

In this op - ed, Cody Miller, an English teacher at PK Yonge Developmental Research School and a doctoral student in English education at the College of Education, writes that this summer's biggest political fight — health care — is also an education issue.

A long - standing political lobby in Sacramento, the coalition generally focuses on big picture budget issues that both teachers and administrators can champion — even though the two sides are often simultaneously at loggerheads on a variety of other issues.

Some of the topics and tools preservice teachers have implemented with their students include using digital images and Google Earth to explore the Civil War and Reconstruction, using blogs and blogging to examine the issue of personal rights and freedoms, using video podcasts to examine issues of bias in global media reports of issues, and using Internet resources and video to explore changing political affiliations in post-World War II Europe.

Hill said the «lack of political leadership» might now also mean the department «takes its eye off» other issues schools faced, including primary assessment problems, initial teacher training reforms and teacher recruitment.

In addition, preservice teachers were encouraged throughout the semester to focus on the life experiences of their buddies so they might better understand the impact social, economic, political, and educational issues have on students.

The suit challenges the constitutionality of California's «agency shop» law, which violates the First Amendment by forcing public school teachers to fund controversial, political, an ideological issues they disagree with.

Analysis of current policy trends influencing leadership preparation and development (e.g., political and contextual issues that impact leadership education such as state changes in teacher and principal evaluation systems, impact of Common Core Standards on programs, and / or other timely and relevant policy topics)

The presence of this topic at a presidential debate only further solidified Friedrich's argument that these are political issues that teachers should have a right to support or not support.

Such investments in struggling public schools seems all but impossible in the current political climate, but with more light being put on these issues of leadership rather than strictly teachers, these schools will be able to better combat the challenges they face.

There are the stories of passionate and inspiring student survivors, like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, who have now become political activists for issues like gun control, and of heroic teachers and students who risked — and in some cases, gave — their lives to keep others out of harm's way.