Sentences with phrase «scapegoating teachers»

I hope that Mayor Harp and other area representatives start asking NHPS management hard questions about what they are really doing, aside from scapegoating teachers, to improve our school learning environments.

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.»

«Scapegoating teachers» Teaching unions reacted furiously to Ofsted's conclusion.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

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

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

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

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

«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.

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.

However, teaching unions have reacted angrily to the report, warning it is «unacceptable to scapegoat teachers».

It's further confirmation that people who say they care about educating children are really just satisfied to scapegoat teachers.

«Since the beginning, Duncan's department has been led by graduates of the Broad Academy, Education Trust - West and other organizations determined to scapegoat teachers and their unions,» the California group wrote.

But it's no longer okay to swamp our schools with societal negligence, then scapegoat teachers when collapse occurs.

Excluding the voices of the community and real education stakeholders by using the courts to rewrite education laws and scapegoat teachers is unfair.

Not exact matches

I worry that if what my son says is true, the teacher is scapegoating another kid in the class (call me crazy but I don't think a 5 - year - old should be sent out of the classroom three times in the first three weeks of school unless the behavior is violent or seriously disruptive).

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

It shifts the blame and scapegoats dedicated, highly skilled teachers instead of addressing poverty and social ills that are the true causes of chronic under - achievement.

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.

Budget cuts, classroom size increases, pressures to teach to the test, scapegoating of teachers — all these forces have driven many of the best and brightest teachers right out of the classroom.

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.

The job also has a PR problem, McDiarmid says, with teachers too often turned into scapegoats by politicians, policymakers, foundations and the media.

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

The lesson of the case, she said, is that «we need to solve the very real teacher - shortage problem — not make matters worse by bashing and scapegoating the dedicated educators who teach our children.»

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel has accused the Obama administration of «scapegoating» teachers and insists that issues like teacher pay be left at the local level.

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.

These evaluations are designed without any foundation in research and they scapegoat dedicated and talented teachers.

DuFour explains how recent reforms aimed at educators themselves have disempowered teachers and how teachers are being scapegoated as the reasons U.S. students aren't achieving more — although, by many indicators, schools are getting the best results they ever have.

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.

«I think teachers are really being made scapegoats,» he told the panel, while conceding «some need to go» if they aren't doing their job.

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

«We should be looking at the model of Finland's schools, a system based on cooperation rather than competition, trusting and respecting teachers rather than scapegoating them, de-emphasizing standardized testing and providing small classes,» Haimson said.

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

Too many excellent teachers are being shamed and mercilessly scapegoated by pseudo educators.

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.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

If we want to attract the best and brightest, and keep them in the classroom, we need to do a number of things, but one certainly is to stand and be counted when public education is attacked and teachers are scapegoated.

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.»

They stood against the scapegoating of teachers and the vilification of their unions.

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.

It also demonstrates «the absolute abject lack of respect and scapegoating of teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians throughout this country,» she says.

But, of course, in truth, we've seen a growing trend in which politicians have used teachers as pawns or even scapegoats in a terrible game of political pandering and maneuvering.

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.