Sentences with phrase «students about the tenure»

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An old story tells about a philosophy professor who, despite his long tenure and large classes, remembered every student he had ever taught.

Early in Cuomo's tenure, a staff lawyer briefed a couple of Cuomo's deputies about a student - loan company that was essentially paying kickbacks to several colleges to be recommended by the schools» financial - aid officers to their students.

Brianna Blaser If you're a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow anxious about finding a tenure - track or research position at a college or university, you're not alone.

They hear the horror stories about promotion and tenure decisions, the fight to secure funding to keep research going, and the drudgery of teaching introductory courses in which students only want to get the «A» that will help them get into the medical or graduate school of their choice.

Similarly, 27 percent oppose basing decisions about teacher tenure on how well students progress on standardized tests, nearly double the 14 percent opposed to the idea one year ago.

For many purposes, such as tenure or retention decisions, it is not the «year to year» correlation that matters, but the «year - to - career» — that is, the degree to which a single year's value - added measure would provide information about a teacher's likely impact on students over their future careers.

Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino spoke candidly to students in Lecturer Richard Weissbourd's January - term class this week about education, his 20 - year tenure as mayor, and his passion for children.

But the groundbreaking decision in the Vergara case makes it clear that early, and effectively irreversible, decisions about teacher tenure have real costs for students and ultimately all of society.

Early, irreversible decisions about teacher tenure have real costs for students and ultimately all of society.

By about the same ratio, the public also thinks that if tenure is awarded, it should be based in part on how well the teacher's students perform in the classroom.

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Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Decisions about licensure, and presumably tenure, would be based on — and here's where things get tricky — «observations of candidates» performance in real - time classroom settings and demonstrated effectiveness in supporting students» academic growth.»

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

But in its swirl of jargon and personal acrimony — a parent at a meeting once asked Ms. Anderson, the white mother of a biracial child, why she did not want the same for Newark's «brown babies» as she did for her own — the fight over her tenure is emblematic of the bitter national debate about how to educate American students for a more competitive world.

During my tenure with the school district, I was struck by the frequency with which educators applied this selective skepticism to data about students» performance.

There's a national conversation underway about teacher tenure, and nearly half the states and the District of Columbia are already overhauling their teacher evaluation processes so that they are tied more directly to student testing data.

This district is to use these data, along with student growth ratings, to inform decisions about teachers» tenure, retention, and pay - for - performance system, in compliance with the state's still current teacher evaluation system.

Directly related to the Review of Article # 4 prior (i.e., # 4 of 9 on observational systems» potentials here), these researchers found that Chicago teachers are, in general, positive about the evaluation system, primarily given the system's observational component (i.e., the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching, used twice per year for tenured teachers and that counts for 75 % of teachers» evaluation scores), and not given the inclusion of student growth in this evaluation system (that counts for the other 25 %).

The clock is ticking on when tenure reform will become part of the discussion about the urgent need to improve student outcomes in Milwaukee.

Dissatisfied that 96 percent of teachers were still getting good ratings — despite the fact that only about 35 percent of students were passing the new, harder Common Core tests — Cuomo got the legislature to agree to make it harder for teachers to be rated effective and harder for teachers without effective ratings to get tenure.

There are several examples of students who learn their course - structure by writing the assignments as these assignment writing help gives an overview about what a student learns and understands during the whole tenure of pursuing graduation or post graduation.

One fascinating story last week was about two «tenured» professors at the for - profit corporate - owned Phoenix Law School who were fired after they opposed plans to prevent students from transferring to other schools.

In which «a pseudonymous assistant professor writes about the burdens of being a conservative student and then tenure - track professor.»

Estimates are that less than 25 % of PhD students in Canada will secure full - time, tenure - stream research and teaching positions, prompting a growing angst among current and newly minted PhDs about their preparedness for life in a non-academic career.

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