Sentences with phrase «rigorous evaluations changed»

Yet three years later, when Gray himself ran for mayor, his tune on rigorous evaluations changed.

Not exact matches

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Still other changes, such as more rigorous evaluation of teachers, are still emerging, and thus too new to understand how they may have affected student outcomes.

Tennessee and Delaware distinguished themselves by committing to bold, comprehensive reforms, such as creating rigorous teacher evaluations tied to student learning and making big changes in failing schools.

I will concede the solutions would need more funding, but the solutions include changing the teaching profession, requiring different expectations at teacher prep programs, reinventing professional development, having a more rigorous human capital department (from hiring to evaluations), more choice, more parent engagement... I also think teaching is not a right, but something you must earn, you should have a society that invests in the teaching profession and teachers investing in it too.

NCTAF is also committed to rigorous evaluation and collecting qualitative and quantitative data about our impact on teacher practice, school change, and student achievement.

The initiative undertakes rigorous evaluations of the services with the aim of bringing about great change in the lives of children in the Tallaght West area.