Sentences with phrase «teacher rating system»

The mass granting of waivers to delay the new teacher rating system comes as political leaders, including President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are shifting away from an emphasis on standardized testing.

Moments later, Governor Andrew Cuomo released his own bill, that would end LIFO in all schools in the state and institute a new teacher rating system for the 2011, 2012 school year.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an arrest of a former college student who threatened to commit a mass shooting at an unknown elementary school and a group to review teacher ratings system used by the New York State Board of Regents.

Thanks to new research, however, the Gates Foundation and others are warning districts and states not to over-rely on test - based teacher rating systems and encouraging districts to consider the value of other methods like traditional observation and student surveys along with test score results.

Those evaluations would have done away with the current teacher rating system and made it harder for teachers to earn top ratings and would have required the city to try to fire teachers with the lowest ratings.

NYSUT President Karen Magee, in an interview before the rally, says Cuomo initially endorsed the new teacher ratings system.

EDUCATION Mr. Cuomo proposed a new teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student test scores — an increase from 20 percent.

The governor has proposed a teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student performance on state tests — an increase from the current 20 percent.

School rating systems (dubious at best), and teacher rating systems (even more dubious) threaten sanctions but offer little support.

The principal of another school, Banana Kelly High School in the Bronx, resigned at the end of 2015, after being found to have fabricated reports of classroom observations as part of the teacher rating system.

Fariña will also have to decide how to adapt the Bloomberg administration's school and teacher rating systems.

Education reform initiatives like the Common Core State Standards, teacher rating systems, and technology infusion, to name just a few, are taxing the personal and professional practices of classroom teachers.