Sentences with phrase «public school teachers generally»

That compares to 19 percent of public school teachers generally.

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John Holt, who was for a time a public school teacher, was very influential in fostering and molding what is now generally called «unschooling.»

So far, I've been leaning towards things that are generally more formal than the dress code for teachers in most public schools just to further differentiate myself from the students, and I've mostly been wearing heels (which also give me a slight height advantage, because I'm petite).

Members of the public are evenly divided in their thinking about the influence of teachers unions: 37 % say they have «a generally positive effect on schools,» while 37 % say they have «a generally negative effect.»

With K — 12 teaching being an integrated market, reducing public school pay would affect the ability of schools more generally to attract teachers, including private schools.

Yet that is what the public schools are about to ask of teachers more generally.

When asked whether teachers unions have a generally positive or negative effect on the nation's public schools, 33 percent of the public gives a negative response, virtually unchanged from the 31 percent and 33 percent who perceived a negative impact in 2009 and 2010, respectively (see Figure 1).

While these stories (e.g., Partelow, 2016; Rich, 2015) and a highly - publicized recent report (Sutcher et al., 2016) generally discuss teacher shortages as a national problem, we argue that the popular conception of a «teacher shortage» is not borne out by historical data; in fact, the production of newly - minted potential teachers has increased steadily over the past several decades, and only about half of these recent graduates have been hired as public school teachers in a typical year.

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

For instance, teachers in Edison Schools work a school year that is 10 percent longer than the national norm, and Edison is able generally to pay teachers 10 percent more than they would earn in another public school — all for the same dollars that other public schools rSchools work a school year that is 10 percent longer than the national norm, and Edison is able generally to pay teachers 10 percent more than they would earn in another public school — all for the same dollars that other public schools rschools receive.

Instead of having to leave campus to go to an affiliated college, Bard students are generally taught in all four years by teachers with Ph.D. s. Unlike at Simon's Rock, the schools are public and students do not have to pay, meaning they can earn an associate's degree at no cost.

On the surface, it might seem that the teachers unions would play a limited role in public education: fighting for better pay and working conditions for their members, but otherwise having little impact on the structure and performance of the public schools more generally.

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

Thirty - seven percent of teachers in the state's public schools are graduates of the UNC system, and they generally have better evaluations and higher pupil achievement than teachers who come from elsewhere.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

When comparing them to ordinary public schools, charter schools do not require certification from teachers; hence the reasons why they are generally lower performing.

While it is very difficult to remove public school teachers, private school teachers generally have contracts that are renewable each year.

The worst is the effect on teachers and the teaching profession: the erosion of public support for them and their work, the image of teachers as under attack from every quarter, the plummeting applications to teachers colleges, the flight of teachers from schools serving disadvantaged students and from the profession generally, the fall in teachers» salaries relative to those of others and the attacks on their benefits.

Generally speaking, public school teachers must have state certification.

Private school teachers generally earn less than their public school counterparts, with teachers at parochial schools at the lowest end of the salary range.

Public school teachers are generally not required to have a master's degree in the field of education, but educators across the country are realizing more and more the value of an advanced degree.

Charter schools are generally not subject to the same regulations as traditional public schools, and only 90 percent of the schools employ unionized teachers.

When the public was asked if teachers unions have a generally positive or negative effect on the nation's public schools, 33 percent said «negative,» while 29 percent said «positive» and 38 percent were neutral — numbers almost identical to the 2009 and 2010 polls.

It's no coincidence North Carolina's protests follow mammoth teacher walkouts in generally conservative states like Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona — states that, like North Carolina, have seen public school funding plummet since the recession.