Sentences with phrase «teacher quality reforms»

Imagine if they rallied those same groups around teacher quality reforms, Common Core curricula and other prescriptions for reforming schools?

NEA also gave $ 255,000 to Center for American Progress, another strong reform - minded outfit, and handed out $ 54,625 to teacher quality reform outfit Teach Plus.

In the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish much.

Whatever one generally thinks of the rest of Kline's plan — and the general useless of the multiple measures approach it champions — at least it is a step in the right direction on the federal role in advancing teacher quality reform.

On this month's Conversation, Editor RiShawn Biddle chats with Connecticut Parents Union President Gwen Samuel and mothers running the Hartford Parents Organization about their efforts to champion school choice and teacher quality reforms in one of Dropout Nation «s States to Watch.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

She was appointed in 1996 to the Louisiana board of education, where she is credited with helping to craft accountability and teacher quality reforms as well as the mechanism that allowed the takeover of New Orleans» failing schools.

Defenders of the education status quo see a corporatist bogeyman behind not only teacher quality reform, but the entire North American school reform movement.

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.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

The latest round came in October after Time came out with a story onVergara v. California and the sparring between reformers and the Big Two unions over teacher quality reform that featured the headline Rotten Apples and included a cover photo of an apple about to be smashed by a judge's gavel.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

After all, it was his 2004 report for the Education Trust on the importance of teachers in improving student achievement that helped usher in the very teacher quality reforms (including using objective and longitudinal student achievement data in evaluating teacher performance) that are now coming into place.

First, there are comparisons of schools in Washington before and after teacher quality reforms employing performance pay measures.

Twenty - five years later, the groundbreaking 1983 report A Nation At Risk, prepared at the request of the Reagan Administration, that led to the formation of 250 state and local panels focused on developing the first wave of teacher quality reforms, the development of curricula standards, and the second wave of standardized testing.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

It would be bigger and better funded, but it would similarly offer extra money to states if they pursued certain types of policies, including preschool expansion, teacher quality reforms, extra funding for schools with extra challenges, and curriculum changes.

At the very least, reformers and Parent Power activists should be disturbed that only Indiana earned CER's top rank, and that only four other states — Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and Utah — have (along with the District of Columbia) earned a B rating for addressing school choice, teacher quality reforms, and data transparency.

This time around, Kline's proposal resembles the teacher quality reform efforts being advanced by the Obama Administration through the sensible Race to the Top grant competition and the counterproductive No Child waiver gambit.

The Gates Foundation has invested $ 5B over the past decade in various school reform initiatives, including small school advocacy and teacher quality reform.

This means being thoughtful and forceful, willing to challenge one's own assumptions and strongly poke holes in myths, and even using media smartly in advancing support for school choice, teacher quality reforms and Parent Power.

It has also proven the effectiveness of programs such as those at the University of New Orleans as well as shown how low - performing nearly all of them are compared to the alternative teacher training operation run by TNTP, the national outfit which, along with Teach For America, is at the vanguard of the teacher quality reform movement.

At the same time, some reform camps, namely centrist and left - leaning Democrats, need to come to terms with the reality that the teacher quality reforms they espouse involve the same weakening of teachers» union influence as the efforts by conservative counterparts to abolish collective bargaining.

Given the presence of these groups, along with the presence of Alliance for Educational Justice (another group backed by AFT), it is little wonder why so much of the «manifesto» focuses on opposing choice and Parent Power, as well as calling for districts to stop hiring recruits trained by Teach For America, the teacher quality reform outfit that has long been the bane of the Big Two's existence.

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.

On this edition of The Conversation, RiShawn Biddle chats with Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard about the teacher quality reform outfit's more - pronounced efforts on addressing equity, criticism from reformers who prefer it to focus solely on teacher quality, and the organization's moves to bolster and diversify recruiting.