Sentences with phrase «teacher based on student test scores»

They want to evaluate teachers based on student test scores, increasing a test - centric focus in the schools.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.

Though some of the E4E recommendations and strategies are similar to those proposed by United Teachers of Los Angeles, the union does not support paying teachers based on their students test scores.

- The majority of POINT and SPBP teachers agreed that rewarding teachers based on student test scores were problematic because those scores did not «capture important aspects of teaching performance.»

In Florida, the state paid Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a for - profit textbook publisher, $ 4.8 million to develop classroom observation methods and nearly $ 4 million to the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit, to create a value - added model for grading teachers based on student test scores, according to state officials.

Getting rid of teacher tenure (which gives teachers extra support from being fired) and firing low - performing teachers based on student test scores is the new approach taken by districts around the country.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Instead of digging into that, of course, Winerip jumps to the predictable conclusion that «evaluating teachers based on their students test scores may not be foolproof.»

«We are opposed to any form of merit pay where pay goes to individual teachers based on student test scores,» says Ed Doherty, Ed.D.» 98, assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers in Massachusetts, which has 20,000 members.

The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest school district.

VAM — evaluating teachers based on student test scores — has been disproved time and again, most recently by statisticians who aren't invested in the outcome.