Sentences with phrase «reforms along with teachers»

However, restorative practices are most effective when district and campus leaders initiate reforms along with teachers.

Not exact matches

This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.

Digital learning is more than the latest addition to education reformers» to - do lists, filed along with teacher evaluations, charter schools, tenure reform, academic standards, and all the rest.

True educational equity comes from comprehensive school reform, which incorporates academic improvements along with health care, housing policy, funding changes, family support and other policies that allow students to go to class safely and actually focus on their work, and that provides teachers with a work environment and enough support to operate creatively, not like infantilized robots.

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

Weisberg — along with a number of education reform groups and the superintendents of the Tulsa and Baltimore school systems — made the case to Congressional staff that it was important to «mend not end» investment in teacher training.

A common base of understanding about reform efforts, shared between teacher leaders, educators, and other community members, along with the community's recognition and value of their leadership expertise, helped teacher leaders to be successful in these roles.

Against this backdrop of educational reform in the United States and China, and along with intensified global economic and educational competition, this is an opportune time to conduct an international comparative examination that sheds new light on and shares new perspectives about the complex issue of teacher effectiveness (Crossley & Waston, 2003).

As teachers, parents and public school advocates know, the corporate education reform industry has been putting out inaccurate and misleading statements, along with outright lies, to persuade the public that teacher tenure is bad.

The United States, along with nations as diverse as France, India, Japan and Mexico, has sought to improve its educational system by reforming teacher certification or teacher education.

Cuomo officials note that the governor secured some reform wins in 2015, including deals that made it more difficult for teachers to be rated «highly effective,» a requirement that outside evaluators assess teachers along with their principals, and a stricter timeline for failing schools to improve.

An education reform group (along with four public schoolteachers) has sued the state's two teachers unions, affiliated with the National Education Association and American Federation of Teacherteachers unions, affiliated with the National Education Association and American Federation of TeachersTeachers (AFT).

This, along with the related overhaul of teacher performance and preparation program evaluation, remains the last frontier of reform.

Summers» letter caught the eye of the Chicago Teachers Union, which along with the City Council Progressive Reform Caucus have long pushed for the city and CPS to go to court on the issue.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

The unwillingness of Democrats to embrace broader school choice beyond charters in its party platform (along with the presence of a teachers» union official among those writing it) also makes it difficult for the party, and centrist Democrats in particular, to ballyhoo its reform bonafides.

After all, the AFT (along with the NEA) have lost influence because accountability, choice, and teacher quality reform efforts continue to shine light on the failed policies and practices they defend.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

Governor Murphy faces a New Jersey where state aid remains underfunded, where the impacts on classrooms of standards reform and the PARCC examinations are still significant, and where recruitment of new teachers has suffered along with teacher morale.

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

[1] And along with all other students, they are included in standards - based reforms — policies that hold their schools and teachers accountable for what they do or do not learn.

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

The nation's leading public education advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American political agenda.

It will take stronger reform efforts, especially in overhauling the recruiting, training, and evaluation of teachers, along with revamping curricula and standards, to make this goal a reality.

While I realize this body of work could simply add to «the shelves» along with those findings of other researchers striving to deflate and demystify this latest round of education reform, if nothing else, I hope the teachers who participated in this study know I am determined to let their true experiences, perceptions of their experiences, and voices be heard.

Efforts by reformers along with reform - minded (and, in many cases, budget - conscious) governors to make it harder to attain tenure or abolish near - lifetime employment altogether, along with moves to subject teachers to performance - based evaluations, means that they would lose the benefits for which they have long worked.

Now called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Republican and Democratic leaders, along with the Corporate Education Reform Industry and the leadership of the teachers» unions are heralding the new system which continues the effort to privatize public education, turn schools into little more than testing factories and undermine teachers and the teaching profession.