Sentences with phrase «specific tenure policies»

Regardless of specific tenure policies, debates like this reinforce the importance of ensuring that all educators are evaluated fairly using multiple measures, provided with high - quality professional development that helps them improve their practice, and given substantive leadership roles that allow them to share their strengths with their colleagues.

Not exact matches

And, also as in the United States, specific policies vary on an institution - by - institution basis with the norm for assistant professors being 4 to 7 years before tenure review (see sidebar).

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

In the few instances when researchers have focused on the issue of teacher tenure specifically, they have generally sought to document the costs and benefits of tenure, make normative arguments about whether tenure should or should not be abolished, or propose specific ways in which tenure policies could be improved.

The federal government's most recent action — the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- continues to emphasize state teacher evaluation and tenure systems; however, it explicitly forbids the U.S. Secretary of Education to force states to set up specific teacher evaluation policies.

Each insurance policy is offered for a specific tenure at a cost called the premium, which varies depending on the frequency of payment.

Few things that you need to look into include: premium payable, cover amount, tenure of the policy, any specific exclusions that you are not aware of, any other terms and conditions etc....

Guaranteed Additions are also added at specific durations within the policy tenure that boosts the fund value.