Sentences with phrase «teacher quality issues among»

He was also struck by the level of agreement on teacher quality issues among Democrats and Republicans, and how many parents said they wanted to see changes in their children's schools.

Not exact matches

Among the issues qualified in those regulations were adequate yearly progress (AYP), school choice, supplemental services, and teacher quality.

The goal of the project is to provide high - quality information and analysis to help stakeholders — especially teachers and policymakers — understand the teacher pension issue and the trade - offs among various options for reform.

The goal of Teacherpensions.org is to provide high - quality information and analysis to help stakeholders — especially teachers and policymakers — understand the teacher pension issue and the trade - offs among various options for reform.

Many articles in this issue cite the overwhelming consensus among researchers, policy - makers, educators, and members of the public that good teachers are the single-most important element of quality education.

That the final Race to the Top rules hardly touch teacher quality reform — among the most - important issues in achieving true education reform — also makes the opposition among traditional education supporters at the state level seem rather, well, ridiculous.

E4E members see issues of teacher quality, evaluations, pay and incentives, pensions and tenure to be top - of - mind among teachers nationwide, with those issues and others including the expired teachers contract taking center stage in the complex Los Angeles education debate.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.