Sentences with phrase «renegade teacher groups»

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The Teacher Education Accreditation Council, the self - described renegade that allows programs seeking its approval to set their own standards of quality, has now won a key endorsement: recognition as a national accrediting body by a Washington - based watchdog group.

He waxes eloquent about «renegade groups» of younger teachers who are rising up to demand a new brand of unionism — one in which the unions disavow seniority provisions, insist on serious teachers evaluations, make it easy to get bad teachers out of the classroom, and otherwise do whatever is best for children and effective schools.

These renegade groups, composed generally of younger teachers, are trying to accomplish what a generation of education reformers, activists and think tanks have not: forcing the unions to genuinely mend their ways.»