Sentences with phrase «school evaluation because»

People criticize the use of test scores for school evaluation because tests ignore other dimensions that are important to intellectual development.

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A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Bob Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said it is difficult to put Syracuse's results into context yet, because it is the only district he is aware of that has released results of the full evaluations.

Forty percent of teachers in the Syracuse school district will have to develop improvement plans because they scored below «effective» on their state - mandated performance evaluations, according to preliminary results released by the district.

As for the Assembly Democratic conference, Heastie said: «We don't want to go home and then in September hear that school districts have to lay people off because they haven't received the funding from the budget because of the linkage of the teacher evaluation and the funding.»

On the schools, the teachers are angry, because he's underfunding and he's imposing these high - stakes tests and the evaluations of teacher based on that.

He and his wife chose to opt out their fifth grade son from taking the Common Core - aligned exams this year because they believe the tests were used for other purposes than what they were meant for, such as teacher evaluations and school funding.

Such attacks are unlikely to be unleashed on Ms. Davids, an unemployed single mother, and the NYC Parents Union because they have been past allies of the UFT regarding parent leadership, supporting the community schools initiative, pushing charter schools to enroll more special ed students, and keeping teacher evaluations private.

The governor wants 100 more charter schools and an overhaul of teacher evaluations, which he says are «baloney,» because virtually all teachers are rated as adequate.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

In addition to the longstanding belief that replacing exiting teachers is difficult, additional concerns have been raised in the D.C. schools that high - performing teachers may leave because of the stress of high - stakes evaluation.

«As a result of our study, we recommend that blood pressure evaluation, control and monitoring should be included as an integral component of the clinical management of children with NAFLD, especially because this patient population is at greater risk for heart attacks and strokes,» said Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD, in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

The absence of ReadNet Bronx from our evaluation is likely to have only a small impact on our assessment of student achievement because the school had only two years of test - taking students before it closed.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

One important anecdotal explanation for the success of the TAP is that teachers in schools using the program improve significantly because their performance evaluations are related directly to TAP teaching rubrics.

All of this teacher evaluation craziness, in my opinion, is an attempt to principal - proof our schools — to go around our principals, because many lawmakers, teachers, and reformers agree that today's principals aren't up to the job of leading.

As the Washington Post's savvy Nick Anderson reported,» Faulty calculations of the «value» that D.C. teachers added to student achievement in the last school year resulted in erroneous performance evaluations for 44 teachers, including one who was fired because of a low rating.»

Because of this insensitivity, when students» scores on such tests are used to evaluate a school's instructional performance, that evaluation usually misses the mark.

Hamilton - Rohe had asked her daughter's school to look into an evaluation three years earlier, but dropped it because the school thought it wasn't necessary.

The consortia - designed assessments, however, have not fared so well, because their implementation became intertwined with new, controversial teacher evaluations and school accountability measures.

We were surprised to see how many principals who had low - performing teachers did not turn to PAR, either because they wanted to provide the help themselves, avoid controversy within their schools, or not be bothered with following the procedures required for the initial evaluation and referral.

Because NCLB schools are evaluated primarily on the basis of achievement levels, the evaluation can not readily detect how much growth is taking place within a school, simply because children come with dramatically different educational endoBecause NCLB schools are evaluated primarily on the basis of achievement levels, the evaluation can not readily detect how much growth is taking place within a school, simply because children come with dramatically different educational endobecause children come with dramatically different educational endowments.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

But there are some great teachers at the high school and, because teacher evaluation is so poor around the country and in the state, we don't have good evidence as to who should stay and who should not.

Students with chronic and acute health conditions have their health needs met at school because of their School Nurses» clinical assessments, judgments, planning, interventions and evaluaschool because of their School Nurses» clinical assessments, judgments, planning, interventions and evaluaSchool Nurses» clinical assessments, judgments, planning, interventions and evaluations.

Because of the contentious environment that surrounds evaluation and monitoring, respondents said, the effort to build trust is a key component of their more general effort to help schools and districts identify areas in need of improvement.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

For the increasing number of charter schools with a mission to serve particular groups of low - performing students, or for those who serve those students by chance, this trick of perception that a school is «struggling» or failing because of their proficiency scores poses a serious problem for evaluation.

The investigation began after teachers at Intermediate School 318 received poor evaluations because their students had performed badly on the state tests.

Implementation in New York City was delayed an additional year (until 2013 — 14), because it took that long for the school district and teachers union to agree on an evaluation system.

Because non-reelection is not for cause, there is no guarantee than the San Jose Unified School District will use its new evaluation system to inform reelection decisions.

The delay in approval was because of state legislation that required educator evaluations to be tied to student performance by the 2016 — 17 school year, one year more than was permitted by the waivers.

We already know that the study will have its own shortcomings because it will rely on voucher schools that volunteer to participate in the evaluation versus a random sampling.

Having different evaluation criteria for a kindergarten teacher and a high school teacher seem appropriate to me because the skills required to be an excellent kindergarten teacher are different from the skills required to be an excellent high school teacher.

Also, suppose that principal evaluations do not closely correspond to teachers» actual contributions to the school community, perhaps because the principal judges this based in part on how well the principal gets along with the teacher rather than, as intended, how much the teacher helps other colleagues.

Scott received the award at AERA's annual meeting in April because of her contributions to school turnaround research and evaluation.

The recent groundbreaking agreement over evaluations for educators in the Los Angeles school district is a major victory for the teachers union because it limits the use of a controversial — but increasingly widespread — measurement of teacher effectiveness.

Officials from 35 education schools sent a letter to Ms. Walsh's group last year claiming the evaluation tool is flawed because it relies heavily on written materials and doesn't consider teachers» performance in their classrooms after they graduate.

This concerns me because, ever since Governor Andrew Cuomo adopted a moratorium on test - based teacher evaluations through the 2019 - 20 school year, teacher ratings are primarily based on principals» evaluations.

The distinctive characteristic of schools with superior evaluation systems is that their leaders can identify practices that they have stopped doing because their evaluations found insufficient evidence of effectiveness.

Kenny spent his first few school years in a self - contained special education class because, according to an evaluation, he was «too disabled to be in the general education setting.»

Because of this, I have given local schools the flexibility they need to minimize the effect these tests have on various matters, such as teacher evaluation and compensation.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Because the completed evaluation failed to meet BESE criteria, the school district denied reimbursement for the IEE.

Although my example is both fictitious and extreme, it illustrates an important point: In real - world school evaluations, students will often improve on state - mandated tests, sometimes dramatically, but the improved scores will not influence a school's AYP status because those students» scores don't cross the proficiency point.

This is a short - sighted response because it fails to give appropriate weight to the teacher, along with many other elements of the schooling context (e.g., high - quality instruction tailored to meet individual needs, strong home - school relationships, systematic evaluation of pupil progress) in explaining the growth of poor children's reading ability (Taylor & Pearson, 1999).

That's because U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has furthered school accountability by announcing that principal preparation and evaluation will factor into President Barack Obama's agenda in his second term.

One LA - area teacher told the Committee he supported the bill because he had a more «comprehensive evaluation working at Blockbuster than I do as a public school teacher in California.»

But because city schools often have multiple assistant principals, with different people focusing on instruction and operations, applying a single set of criteria to their evaluations could be complicated.