Sentences with phrase «teacher in the nation»

This is a problem given that White women and men account for 82 percent of teachers in the nation's classrooms.

As seen in this graph, there are dramatically more beginning teachers in our nation's classrooms.

As in the state - by - state data, there are few Hispanic teachers in our nation's classrooms relative to the number of Hispanic students.

One of the biggest challenges facing educational leaders today is finding strategies to keep our best and brightest teachers in our nation's classrooms.

It compares how much teachers in the nation's 113 largest districts earn over a lifetime, with a local cost - of - living factor applied.

An intelligent use of value aided analysis would allow easily for a 50 percent reduction in the number of teachers in the nation.

WASHINGTON — Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.

«Most teachers in the nation now belong to unions or associations that bargain over salaries, working conditions, and the like.

Last week, Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington Teachers Union, announced his intention to push for legislation that would force charter school teachers in the nation's capital to become unionized.

Teachers in those nations deserve no less than their colleagues in England and Wales.»

He was the first teacher in the nation to take advantage of Teacher Next Door, a new Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiative that makes homes available to teachers for 50 percent off the list price.

Chun, who has received numerous honors, including being named one of USA Today's 24 Outstanding Teachers in the Nation in 2000, has made it his mission to help teachers incorporate technology into their instruction in a way that makes the final product more interesting and memorable, both for the student and for the audience.

«I have always loved to teach,» said Dale Kephart after being named best high school physical education teacher in the nation for the year 2000.

She was among the very first National Board Certified Teachers in the nation.

The winners will each receive $ 25,000 — one of the largest monetary awards for practicing teachers in the nation — and the opportunity to complete a summer residency with TNTP that will help them share their insights and knowledge with educators nationwide.

Moreover, many of these same policy makers justify increasing instructional time as part of the international education arms race while ignoring the fact that teachers in nations such as South Korea and Singapore only actually teach about 35 % of their work day compared to 80 % in the U.S. (Wei et al., 2009).

Wisconsin classrooms have one of the highest rates of new teachers in the nation, according an analysis from Education Week.

I continued on to DC and spent 3 years teaching, designing curriculum, and coaching teachers in our nation's capitol.

The lawsuit is part of a growing effort to use litigation to overcome union opposition to changes in the way teachers in the nation's second - largest school district are assigned, retained, evaluated and granted tenure.

The strengths of the school in our experience has been Sarah s teacher (I d put her against any kindergarten teacher in the nation) the great community of parents who wait outside for their kids each day a responsive Principal and a warm energy.

As the leader of the largest group of teachers in the nation, Weingarten is well - positioned to effect change in the education space, and she consistently ensures that key issues remain at the forefront of American public discourse.

Students seeking teaching jobs in the Empire State might be interested to know that, according to the National Education Agency, New York offers the sixth best salary to beginning teachers in the nation ($ 41,079) and the overall best average teacher salary ($ 69,118).

Federal programs currently allocate about $ 2.5 billion on professional development for teachers in the nation's public schools.

Teachers in the nation's schools agree with the general public about the importance of basic academic and computer skills, but they disagree over how good a job those schools are doing, a survey has found.

Parents and teachers in the nation's largest school system would have broad new authority over their schools under a plan the New York City school board is expected to take up next week.

This large reduction would virtually eliminate teacher shortages and allow for increased selectivity in hiring, which could, in turn, boost the quality of teachers in the nation's classrooms.

And nationally, no more than 2 percent of teachers in the nation's public schools are Black men.

Reporting from Washington — Roxanne Brummell has thrived in what many consider the toughest new testing ground for teachers in the nation.

This is unfortunate because the distributional center of teaching quality reflects the vast majority of teachers in the nation, what we call the mighty middle.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, which received strong bipartisan support from both houses of Congress, will directly affect nearly 50 million students and their 3.4 million teachers in the nation's 100,000 public schools.

CORE campaigned on promises that it would reform the CTU and lead a fight against school closings, job cuts and the victimization of teachers in the nation's third largest school district.

Education schools across the country fared poorly, but California, which is among the top six producers of teachers in the nation, was identified as one of the three worst states at training teachers.

We are blessed to have some of the finest schools and teachers in the nation.

«[W] e believe it would be premature to channel half the teachers in the nation to work towards his untested image of literacy curriculum,» says a statement about the Gettysburg lesson on the website of the Reading & Writing Project, which has otherwise praised the Common Core and sought to adapt to it.