Sentences with phrase «teacher accountability down»

I'm incredulous when friends suggest that we can always get to the rigorous tests down the road, just as some of the state superintendents (and analysts like Eric Hanushek) are incredulous about the suggestion that we can get to teacher accountability down the road.

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Cuomo also famously doubled down on tying education funding to performance and pushing for greater teacher accountability, saying: «l learned that everyone in public education has his or her own lobbyist.

Without proper local accountability, transparency and a guarantee that teachers will be properly qualified, our children will continue to be let down.

There are no top - down accountability systems in Finland, with their implied distrust of teachers, of the sort that dominate the discussion in the United States.

With one notable exception, I failed to get teachers to slow down, relax about the accountability bugaboo, and talk about best practices in light of the work students actually produced.

The exclusion of creative subjects from the EBacc remit; subject silos; out - dated subject orthodoxies; teacher shortages and financial and academic pressures on schools weighed down by accountability measures are creating a perfect storm in which students will be those affected in the short term and society in the long term.

Teachers are already challenged by multiple accountabilities that draw down our inner strength; we need even deeper reserves of resilience if we are to hold hope for our trauma - affected students.

Accountability shouldn't come down to «test - and - punish,» and classroom teachers shouldn't be the only ones held to account.

For Melissa Marini Švigelj - Smith, a parent, teacher, and activist in Cleveland, this moment in American education boils down to whether research will guide what happens in schools, or whether schools will continue to be graded through accountability systems created «by politicians who have no idea what goes into educating a child.»

Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»

Meanwhile, the 1.4 million - member American Federation of Teachers declared that the Race to the Top initiative «would simply layer another top - down accountability system on top of the current faulty one.»

Formerly significant issues like school accountability and teacher evaluations have been watered down or ignored.

While Ofsted and the other levers of accountability have played an important part in raising standards, these achievements are down to the fact we have the best generation of leaders working in our comprehensive schools, leading a very fine cohort of teachers.

So, Long Island teachers, can you retire Ernestine and dial your accountability animosity down?

It's not just the hours, though they are too high, but time spent on an accountability system which feels like it doesn't trust teachers: expecting photos of lessons stuck into books, the writing down of verbal feedback to students, lesson plans needing to be in immense detail and done too far in advance to be educationally useful.

For some time now there has been increasing recognition that, in an educational climate of accountability measures and increased top - down control, there is a need to position the work of teachers as extending beyond the classroom and situate teachers» role in education within the broader context of schooling.

«I don't view it so much as an accountability mechanism because none have been shut down,» said Tim Daly, president of the national organization TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project), which trains many of New Orleans» Teach For America instructors, and whose organization has fared fairly well in the studies.

She continued, «Accountability shouldn't come down to «test - and - punish,» and classroom teachers shouldn't be the only ones held to account.

I think the teachers, the parents... have become so frustrated with standardization, and with top - down accountability and being told what to do without being given the resources to do it, and having testing before teaching, that they've gotten so frustrated that they just don't trust the transition to standards anymore.

Thirdly, lesson observation «is not a top - down performance - management accountability tool», but driven by teacher requests to observe each other.

But the current systems of high - stakes testing and accountability are top - down models of reform that are fundamentally undemocratic: High - stakes tests and the policymakers who want to use them to hold educators accountable have no interest in the voices of students, teachers, parents, or administrators.

Consistent with that pattern, we find that schools responded to accountability pressures by moving their weaker teachers down to the lower grades and stronger teachers up to the higher grades.

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