Sentences with phrase «such as public school teachers»

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

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She said the need for the landmark engagement was crucial considering the fact that schools have resumed and there was need for key stakeholders such as principals, school administrators, Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), public and private school guidance counsellors, evaluators and others, to become conversant with and abreast of the provisions of the policy.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

Besides my research and my first steps as a teacher, I also take part in numerous events related to molecular gastronomy such as public conferences, science festivals, and visits to catering schools.

Garcez has been involved in numerous public engagement events such as Science Busking at Barbican Center, the Institute Open Day for teachers and students, and visiting local schools representing the Francis Crick Institute.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

What's more, critics say, single - sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue.

Charter Schools: publicly funded, privately managed schools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaSchools: publicly funded, privately managed schools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaschools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaschools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operations).

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

The big difference in most religious schools is not that they indoctrinate, but that they raise topics such as moral, ethical, civic, and spiritual matters that teachers in public schools can not or dare not address.

That's a grave blow to Carnegie - style professionalism - and becomes more damaging as evidence emerges that such schools perform just as well as, and possibly better than, traditional public schools with all their certified teachers and principals.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Finally, we find that a majority of teachers often takes positions contrary to those of a plurality of both the public and the affluent on key issues such as teachers unions, the rights and prerogatives of teachers, and school vouchers.

Choice schools, moreover, need not hire teachers on the basis of governmental criteria used by public schools such as the number of education courses completed.

For example, schools might focus on those few places where the public can see students and teachers during the school day, such as on field trips or at dismissal.

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...

Increasingly, schools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fallschools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, FallSchools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fall 2017).

Strategies such as these, Walsh writes, «establish an important and unambiguous principle: teacher education exists to serve the needs of Pre-K — 12 schools and public financial support should depend on its ability to do so.»

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

It also contains first - person analysis from commentary contributors, such as Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable, an interactive project developed by Education Week Teacher and the Center for Teaching Quality and featuring teacher - led discussions on America's public sTeacher and the Center for Teaching Quality and featuring teacher - led discussions on America's public steacher - led discussions on America's public schools.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

In earlier eras, reformers wanted such things as a better curriculum, better - prepared teachers, better funding, more equitable funding, smaller classes, and desegregation, which they believed would lead to better public schools.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

But its most important impact is on every public k - 12 student in Michigan, because teachers have the biggest influence on student learning of all factors inside school walls (though outside factors such as income can have an even bigger impact).

Conservatives pushed programs meant to weaken the teachers» unions, such as advocating for charter schools, which employ a far smaller share of unionized teachers than do traditional public schools.

Charter schools receive public funding but, unlike public schools, employ mostly nonunion teachers and have autonomy in school districts, which allows them to set their own conditions, such as longer school days.

The report surveyed over 300 New York City public school teachers and found that they concluded that punitive approaches toward children, such as aggressive policing, suspensions and other reactive strategies, actually undermine the human right to education by failing to address the causes of conflict and criminalizing students.

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

Recent national policy initiatives, such as implementation of Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluation, and school leadership evaluation, have raised new questions about the future of public education.

If you are a parent in search of a good public school to enroll your child then you're in luck because this article is going to look at some of the best ranked schools based on a number of factors such as test scores, graduation rates, college preparedness, as well as teacher quality.

These include many reforms familiar to public education advocates such as Teacher Merit Pay, Parent Trigger, Education Savings Accounts, Charter expansion, Central Charter School Authorizer, Corporate Tax Scholarships, Universal Vouchers, Collective Bargaining, Innovation Schools / Districts, Virtual Charters, Data Mining, District Report Cards / School Grades, Personalized Learning, Open Enrollment, and the conveniently bundled «Indiana Education Reform Package.»

Absent from observable factors are contributions teachers of highly specialized subjects make outside the classroom setting such as teachers of music, drama, dance, or physical education who interact frequently with various publics outside of the traditional school schedule.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

She has been recognized for her work as a White House Champion for Change, Chicago Public Schools Innovator of the Year, TEDx Speaker, Golden Apple Teacher of Distinction, Apple Distinguished Educator, Google for Education Certified Innovator, and featured on various programs such as NBC's Education Nation, C - SPAN's Reimagining Education and NPR.

In this regard, one of the most longstanding and promising teacher evaluation approaches relies on peer assistance and review (PAR) programs, such as those in Toledo, Ohio, and Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.

In light of this historic milestone, NSBA will continue to work with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

State Journal education reporter Molly Beck reported in Sunday's newspaper that public school teachers licensed in high - demand fields such as science, technology and engineering are being recruited and retained with financial incentives.

Recruiting messengers such as teachers, parents, and business leaders who can speak to the importance of their local public schools and share their concerns about vouchers directly with policymakers and the media.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

Many public school teachers have vehemently opposed such efforts, especially as state education funding has dwindled since the Great Recession.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

Teachers and principals at Success said that they prepare their students so intensely for the tests because of the opportunities that high scores can present, such as invitations to top public middle or high schools, or scholarships for private schools.

The advent of national testing (such as NAPLAN), national curriculum, national professional standards, teacher education reforms and public accountabilities such as the MySchool website comparing schools create an environment that is far from autonomous.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.

Later, as the chief academic officer for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg public schools in North Carolina, she implemented initiatives such as intensive reading programs for students in Kindergarten through the third grade; extensive training for teachers instructing English learners and professional development strategies to teach children of poverty.