Sentences with phrase «stakes education evaluations»

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Anyone participating in the education policy debate for five years or more probably staked out their position on the use of value - added (or student achievement growth) in teacher evaluations long ago.

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Last week, Gates Foundation education chief Vicki Phillips wrote a «letter to our partners» urging that states give students and teachers time to adjust to the new Common Core standards before using those standards as factors «in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition.»

Someday, when they write the history of the education - reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today's obsession with high - stakes teacher evaluations.

Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...

Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein told the Journal that the poll «indicates that voters are starting to understand the issues with these high - stakes teacher evaluations and how this skews what happens in the classroom to focus narrowly on a single test, rather than on the deep, well - rounded education that students deserve.»

Those on the right increasingly believe that the Common Core represents severe federal overreach into state sovereignty over education; those on the left, including the AFT, are pushing back not against the standards themselves, but against their implementation and use in newly adopted high - stakes teacher evaluation systems.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

Rather, it is states which have historically tested least and are less likely to attach high - stakes to their tests that generally score highest on NAEP [see Neill, Civil Rights], have lower dropout rates [Clark], and send more students on to college [see article on evaluation of state college systems, Education Week 1/6/00].

The four «guiding principles» for the march are: equitable funding for all public school communities; an end to high - stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation; curriculum developed for and by local school communities; and teacher, family, and community leadership in forming public education policies.

Proximity to the new president laid a foundation for much of the Obama administration's education policies, including Race to the Top, high - stakes teacher evaluations and rapid expansion of charter schools.

More than 90 percent of teachers outside New York City have earned high ratings in the state's first year of mandated performance evaluations, a fact that state education commissioner John King said «should» ease unions» concerns about attaching «high stakes» to testing in a new, more difficult curriculum.

By forming NYCEDF, MORE and its allies intend to increase grassroots support for a fair contract and to organize effective opposition to the new teacher evaluation system imposed on city teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and students.

What is so troubling is that Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Pryor just staked their careers on tying Connecticut's Master Test to a new teacher evaluation system that will depend on the results of that test.

For the last six months we've seen Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Pryor stake their careers on tying Connecticut's Master Test to a new teacher evaluation system that they claim will allow administrators to determine which teachers are doing their job successfully and which need to be removed from the classroom.

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

Since the 80's and 90's, the education system has added No Child Left Behind, a myriad of high stakes tests, Common Core Standards, teacher evaluations that are tied to pay, to name a few, along with higher rates of poverty and non-English speaking students.

While state and national leaders in education have repeatedly noted the importance of teacher quality — while also misrepresenting that importance [emphasis added]-- increasing standards - based teaching, high - stakes testing and value - added methods of teacher evaluation, along with the dismantling unions, have de-professionalized teaching and discouraged young people from entering the field.

With regard to issues specific to education, AFT National president Randi Weingarten celebrated the new federal education law, «Every Student Succeeds Act» (ESSA), and said it promises to decouple high stakes standardized tests from teacher evaluation.

RTTT explicitly rewarded applicants for implementing market - based education reforms, including high - stakes testing, support for charter schools, large data systems for evaluations, and restructuring plans for «failing» schools.18

The teacher evaluation system, though technically kicked down the road a bit to high stakes testing advocate Meryl Tisch and other like - minded bureaucrats at the State education department, is already pretty well established at this point, and it is everything we feared as far as escalating the testing regime, disempowering and demeaning educators (including principals), and almost certainly exacerbating the looming teacher shortage.

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