Sentences with phrase «scapegoat teachers for»

Chris Keates, general secretary of teachers» union NASUWT, said: «It is unacceptable to scapegoat teachers for the variability in identifying pupils with SEN and ensuring their complex needs are met.

«It is unacceptable to scapegoat teachers for the variability in identifying pupils with SEN and ensuring their complex needs are met.

«It is insane to once again scapegoat teachers for a process that the state controlled, reviewed and directed.»

Damian Betebenner, a senior associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc. in Dover, N.H. who developed the SGP model in use in Massachusetts, added that «Unfortunately, the use of student percentiles has turned into a debate for scapegoating teachers for the ills.»

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She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

In a subsequent interview, Miner said Cuomo's policies «scapegoat teachers» and fail to account for inadequate funding of poor districts.

Gillibrand says that she doesn't know what Juan is talking about, but in the abstract she does not support the idea of making teachers scapegoats for a school's failure.

Billy Easton of Alliance for Quality Education said he thinks teachers are being used as scapegoats.

«You can not scapegoat teachers, then say «We're going to give them more tests and more evaluations,» and walk away from the significant constitutional underfunding that's been going on in this state for years,» Miner said.

I agreed with Randi that teacher unions have been scapegoated for the appalling data regarding teacher evaluation that we've seen in The Widget Effect and elsewhere.

Right now, American teachers are scapegoats for everything wrong with our society.

In his remarks, Fletcher criticized Deasy for «scolding, scapegoating and demeaning teachers» rather than supporting or listening to them but would not say whether the union would seek his ouster.

For our part, we're tired of seeing teachers cast as scapegoats, of all the carping over unions and tenure.

Parents might have seen Cheatham as a scapegoat in an ill - conceived «reform» scheme, but a labor negotiator for the Chicago Public Schools said it was Cheatham who helped devise controversial plans for both a longer day and to use student test scores in teacher performance evaluations.

«It's just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society's problems,» Clinton told the AFT, according to selected quotes released by the union.

And the media, instead of conducting a thorough investigation, found a scapegoat in teachers... a group who generally will not advocate for themselves.

Researchers know that blaming teachers for the ills of society — using them as scapegoats — will not make good schools or productive students.

«The bill made teachers the scapegoats for all the inadequacies of public education,» Ms. Solano said.

Without hesitation, they called out, «Poor leadership by the prior principal» (denigrating authority), «lack of teacher assistants for differentiating instruction» (denying personal responsibility), and «unrealistic expectations by politicians» (scapegoating).

Maintain a climate of scapegoating and witch hunting for «bad teachers,» who are posited as the cause of poverty and student failure, doing everything possible to keep debate from addressing systemic inequities

Teacher Evaluation: a way to use teachers as scapegoats for the lack of societal response to the educational needs of minority students

Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.

bsallamack: «Teachers should email their members of Congress and flood the Obama website with rage at being made the scapegoats for the problems of public education by politicians.»

Pity the modern American classroom teacher: Not only is she the scapegoat du jour for everything that's wrong with education today, she is also responsible for finding a way to cram the fruits of that politicking into her lesson plans.

Teachers and schools, who in many cases are day to day the strongest advocates and most stable support system struggling youth have, are instead being scapegoated for a society that is failing our children.

· Resist scapegoating unionized teachers and local school councils, and instead, support democratic processes such as teachers organizing and parents serving on governing bodies for their children's schools.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said teachers should not be made scapegoats for theTeachers said teachers should not be made scapegoats for theteachers should not be made scapegoats for the system.

Allowing teacher Unions to be the scapegoat, moves us farther away from the true mission of all Labor Unions, to create better working and learning conditions for all segments of our society.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.