Sentences with phrase «quality of the teacher workforce»

Policymakers reason that evaluating teachers based on their students» performance will lead to the removal of under - performing educators and an improvement in the overall quality of the teacher workforce.

The quality of the teacher workforce in the United States is of considerable concern to education stakeholders and policymakers.

Those who buy the notion that the Coleman Report basically got it right might ask why we have not made more progress in improving the quality of the teacher workforce (or schools more generally).

The debate over school integration now requires discussion of school accountability, parental choice, and measures designed to enhance the quality of the teacher workforce.

They say teachers have a better understanding of education production than do policymakers, and will negotiate for non-pecuniary benefits that improve teachers» working conditions and thus increase the quality of the teacher workforce.

She posited that collective bargaining allows teachers to soak up more of the resources for themselves without generating any change in the quality of the teacher workforce.

Efforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

Without remedying teacher pay and benefits, the quality of the teacher workforce and the pipeline leading to it will continue to suffer in not just those states that are striking but in all states where teacher and educational conditions are weak.

E fforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

According to the poll, twice as many teachers believe that tenure has a positive impact on the quality of the teacher workforce as believe it has a negative impact.

Educational policymakers struggle to find ways to improve the quality of the teacher workforce.