Sentences with phrase «teacher provisions»

This approach would go way beyond the highly qualified teacher provision.

Together, the documents cover several topics related to data collection and reporting, high quality teacher provisions, and accountability and intervention during these transition years.

The highly qualified teacher provisions have been helpful but are primitive.

A decade ago, Miller pushed for the ill - fated Highly Qualified Teachers provision of No Child Left Behind (which now threatens to kill off Teach for America in his own state).

Michael J. Petrilli, the vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and a former education department official under Spellings, takes this view: «Nothing was happening on the Highly Qualified Teacher provision years ago and she's finally enforcing it, so she's built up credibility with people who care about that provision.

Hickok: I know there is language that limits how long a substitute teacher can be in a classroom before the actual qualified teacher provisions kick in.

The regulations talk about alternative certification as satisfying the qualified teacher provisions if certain things are done: quality pre-service; ongoing work with existing teachers, mentors, or master teachers while in the classroom; and earning certification no more than three years after entering a classroom.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

But Senator Bernie Sanders's (I - VT) proposal to add some teeth to the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions by requiring districts to provide mentoring and professional development to teachers who have not completed a state - approved teacher preparation program and obtained full certification was rejected out of concerns that it would harm Teach For America and other alternative certification programs.

Last August a public - interest law firm in California, Public Advocates, thought it had found a chink in the Department of Education's interpretation of the «highly qualified» teacher provision of NCLB.

Get the feds out of the teacher business: The Highly Qualified Teacher provision was a well - intentioned mistake.

«It's really been the most screwed - up implementation of the law,» declares Joel Packer, the National Education Association's chief lobbyist on NCLB, of the highly qualified teacher provisions.

It is important to note that this research design will capture the impact of the accountability provisions of NCLB, but not the impact of other NCLB components such as the Reading First program or its Highly Qualified Teacher provisions.

«I think more than most [senators] he wanted to know what the research said on topics,» responded Schwartz, recounting a time when Kennedy met with him, Professor Bridget Terry Long, and Professor Tom Kane to discuss NCLB, teacher provisions, and simplifying the FAFSA process.

NCLB's Highly Qualified Teacher provision was a well - intentioned mistake.

Since NCLB became law, there has been a great deal of debate over the highly qualified teacher provision.

A significant number of amendments focused on the bill's highly qualified teacher provisions, which have flown under the radar in light of more dramatic changes to the legislation's accountability components.

ASCD has begun to compare Reed's bill to the teacher provisions in the Senate's comprehensive rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

A number of recent policy initiatives, including NCLB's highly qualified teacher provisions, have sought to improve the qualifications of teachers and their distribution across schools.