Sentences with phrase «teacher quality movement»

She calls this «the great disappointment» of the teacher quality movement.

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His influence can still be felt most palpably in four areas: teacher unionism; the standards movement; the choice movement; and the adoption of reforms to improve teacher quality.

What matters for this analysis is not which student was assigned to which teacher within the grade, but how the movement of teachers has altered the quality of teaching in that grade as a whole.

This is a central tension that plagues the open - resources movement: teachers want free, high - quality resources, but the people who create them want to be paid for doing so.

We commend the Governor for a spending plan that provides real, meaningful resources to our high - performing schools, prioritizes teacher recruitment and retention, and ensures our quality charter school movement continues to thrive.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

• Educator Quality — We should aggressively expand alternatives to educator preparation and certification, lead the movement to national standardized certification, significantly expand new teacher mentoring, aggressively recruit non-traditional leadership for school administration, and introduce performance - based compensation for all educators based on value - added evaluation.

NCTQ's ranking scheme is the latest addition to a world - wide movement to monitor, measure and (hopefully) increase teacher quality and improve student achievement levels.

«We want to thank the supporters of the charter movement, including students, parents and teachers, for recognizing the important role of charter schools in public education, and for supporting efforts to expand quality education opportunities to more students.

We believe that building solidarity among parents and teachers, supporting social movement teacher unionism and fighting racist school policies is key to building a high quality, equitable, and just public school system for all of Chicago.

• anticipate and respond with agility to key national movements and initiatives in education • climb inside politicians» thinking • network tirelessly • maintain real credibility with teachers and school leaders • create high quality intellectual property • build the academy brand through its «model schools».

West then went on to praise the quality of special ed teacher training — and went on a tirade about the school reform movement's failures to address special ed overall.

By the end of that decade, southern governors and chambers of commerce successfully launched a wave of curricula standards, standardized testing regimes, and teacher quality efforts that would be at the heart of the school reform movement of today.

SFER (Students for Education Reform) is a student - led movement that champions educational equity... SFER organizes students to be a powerful force for K - 12 education policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kids.»

Without No Child, there is no Race to the Top, no teacher quality reform movement, no discussion about value - added assessment and no real national focus on stemming achievement gaps.

To work, the 21st century skills movement will require keen attention to curriculum, teacher quality, and assessment.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachersteachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachersTeachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachersteachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachersteachers.»