E4E co-founder Evan Stone described his disappointment with a court decision to
release teacher data reports in New York, a stance E4E shares with the UFT.
The DN accuses UFT President Michael Mulgrew of blocking efforts to
release teacher data reports.
When New York City newspapers
released teacher data reports this spring, teachers» reactions at my school ranged from slightly fearful to totally outraged.
Not exact matches
According to
data released by the OECD, the starting salary for a high school
teacher with no experience in the country is about $ 79,000.
An anonymous Senate Republican, who does not represent New York City, said his conference is growing aggravated by Mayor Bloomberg's «do - or - die» approach to lobbying on key issues - including the
release of
teacher performance evaluation
data — an issue he lost on to the
teachers» unions.
Former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin says Cuomo «seems to be straddling the school - accountability line he drew eight weeks ago» by suggesting he's opening to limiting the public
release of
teacher evaluation
data.
As if anticipating that attack, Cuomo
released a 250 - page book listing his positions on issues of the day, including a strong defense of charter schools and the use of student - performance
data in assessing
teachers.
Commenting on the
data released today by the Department for Education on permanent and fixed - period exclusions of pupils during 2013 - 14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union in the UK, said: «The increase in the number of pupils suspended due to assaulting adults in schools is extremely worrying.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos doesn't see an agreement — in the budget or otherwise — limiting the public
release of
teacher evaluation
data.
It turned out to be convenient for Cuomo that the Education Department
released the
data — which showed that the vast majority of
teachers were high performing under the system — the day before the «safety net» bill was sent to Cuomo's desk.
The state Education Department on Tuesday
released preliminary results of the second year of the mandatory
teacher - evaluation system, which included
data from New York City for the first time.
ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested he won't sign a «safety net» bill that would shield educators from consequences of the rough rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, citing new
teacher - evaluation
data released on Tuesday.
Cuomo cited
data from last school year's
teacher evaluations that the state Education Department
released on Tuesday in calling for an overhaul of his signature rating system, the design of which he called an «evolving process.»
Data released by the New York State Education Department on the distribution of
teacher quality reveals inequitable access to highly effective
teachers in New York City.
Upon
releasing the
data, State Education Commissioner John King said that the results showed that
teachers had no reason to fear the new
teacher evaluations.
New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in
teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent
release of
teacher evaluation
data.
Data summarizing statewide and local cuts in
teachers, programs and other will be
released.
7:15 pm: Juan asks DioGuardi: The NYC Department of Education is poised to
release to the public in the coming weeks
Teacher Data Reports, which are based on student scores on state tests.
Commenting on the primary school performance tables
released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing
data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.
Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United
Teachers, a statewide union umbrella group, also welcomed the
release of more test
data.
Preliminary
data released in October 2013 showed that the vast majority of
teachers and principals (94 % and 92 %, respectively) were deemed «Effective» or «Highly Effective» despite student proficiency rates around 30 % in math and ELA.
The appellate division of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled on Aug. 25 that the Department of Education's
Teacher Data Reports should be
released to the public.
The state court's Appellate Division on Nov. 15 denied the UFT's motion for leave to appeal the court's prior ruling on the public
release of
Teacher Data Reports.
Controversial
Teacher Data Reports produced by the Department of Education in 2008 and 2009 may be
released to the media in the coming weeks after the state's highest court refused to hear the UFT's appeal to block their publication.
As the district gained 45 minutes of instructional time with this change, we
released students 30 minutes early on Thursdays so our
teachers could have regular, dedicated time for collaboration and
data analysis with their colleagues.
The question is not whether to have a
teacher evaluation program tied to student performance — the City school system has been rating 12,000 elementary and middle school
teachers for several years already — but whether to
release the «
data.»
These supports include additional funding of $ 20,000 per school (up to a maximum of $ 170,000 per district) for superintendent and principal mentoring and monitoring; $ 15,000 for
teacher release time for job - embedded professional learning; 2 provincial professional learning sessions for principal and
teacher teams from all schools involved; and Ministry developed documents, resources and facilitation, including tracking templates for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative
data.
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Office of Education
released James S. Coleman's «Equality of Educational Opportunity» report, an immense analysis of
data from around 600,000 public school students and tens of thousands of
teachers.
About two - fifths of
teachers quit the profession within five years, according to data released by the Association of Teachers and Lecture
teachers quit the profession within five years, according to
data released by the Association of
Teachers and Lecture
Teachers and Lectures (ATL).
In a major study we
released this week together with Education Reform Now, How Strong Are U.S.
Teacher Unions: A State - By - State Comparison, we dug deep, churning vast amounts of
data to parse the differences in political strength across state - level unions in the fifty states plus the District of Columbia.
ED's press
release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great
teachers and principals, robust use of
data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.
The time - series
data we used in that article began in March, 2004, the first quarter that the BLS
released such
data for public school
teachers, and ended in September 2008, the last quarter of
data available when we wrote the article.
Commenting on the
release yesterday of secondary school performance
data for England in 2015/16,
teachers union NAHT says pupils who would be more suited to a broader range of GCSE subjects are not being served well by having their subjects restricted by EBacc.
The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has just
released its second annual Initial
Teacher Education: Data Report 2014, which contains a range of data that informs the current debate on teacher prepa
Teacher Education:
Data Report 2014, which contains a range of data that informs the current debate on teacher preparat
Data Report 2014, which contains a range of
data that informs the current debate on teacher preparat
data that informs the current debate on
teacher prepa
teacher preparation.
Chiefs for Change commends the regulations
released today that will help ensure students have great
teachers,
teachers are well prepared for their jobs, and states and future educators have transparent
data about the effectiveness of preparation programs.
Yet according to those readers who voted in the Education Next poll («Best and Worst Developments for K - 12 Education»), the
release of
data on
teacher performance by the L.A. Times was the most controversial event.
The Chicago school system, the nation's third largest, hired 2,236 new
teachers for the 2000 - 01 school year — up by more than 300 from last year, according to
data released this month.
United Federation of
Teachers President Michael Mulgrew also called for the
data to be
released.
The L. A. Times
release of
teacher performance
data garnered better than a quarter of the 446 votes for worst education development of the year, and Race to the Top came in a solid second with 18 % of the vote.
Meanwhile, in declaring that «Schools should teach about the French Revolution, not have their parents act it out», Rotherham reinforces a conceit found far too often found among Beltway reformers (and, as evidenced from Teach For America President Wendy Kopp's thoughtless piece on
releasing teacher performance
data, even among some operator - oriented reformers): That families — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — just aren't equipped to make smart decisions when it comes to school operations.
Pupil performance rose across reading, writing, maths and science, according to
teacher assessments
data also included in the DfE
release.
Mining the
data from the federal government's 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress («the nation's report card»), the national
teachers union
released a study showing fourth - graders in charter schools lagging behind their mainstream public - school counterparts in nearly every category of race, ethnicity, poverty, and community size.
Michael Roatt, a music
teacher and union representative, says if the
data's
released, it shouldn't be attached to any names.
This latest
release of state
data might help us answer where
teachers are evaluated more rigorously.
A new analysis
released by the Strategic
Data Project shows that students taught by the highest - performing math
teachers in LAUSD come out eight months ahead of some of their peers.
After a protracted debate in the courts, the New York City Department of Education
released to newspapers and other news outlets the 2007 — 2010
Teacher Data Reports for approximately 18,000
teachers.
This means that scores on the tests will be
released to Hardy after Sylvanie Williams's school year ends — too late for
teachers to use that
data to course - correct.
In addition, Jose Vilson talks about how the public
release of the
teacher data reports has helped mobilize
teachers and anti-testing advocates in NYC.
One of the things that stood out among the
data released in the recent MetLife survey, was that
teachers who collaborate professionally with other
teachers are more likely to seek out leadership roles and are more likely to be satisfied with their position.
Accordingly, the judge noted that the department of education and the Loudoun school system failed to «meet the burden of proof to establish an exemption» under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act [FOIA]» preventing the
release of
teachers» identifiable information (i.e., beyond
teachers» SGP
data).