Sentences with phrase «teacher reform»

This is why teacher reform is now more radioactive than vouchers: Rather than taking a long, winding road, it attacks the core problem head - on.

But in the course of research I have been doing on teacher reform nationwide, I have followed DCPS's evolving human capital system, interviewing senior school system officials and watching reforms play out in Washington schools.

The story about D.C.'s teacher reform efforts since Michelle Rhee's departure has gone untold until now.

Our foundation is working with a number of districts, including Hillsborough (Florida), Memphis, and Pittsburgh, to advance comprehensive teacher reforms, and we are engaged with nearly 3,000 teachers in six school districts on a project called «Measures of Effective Teaching.»

Econometric analyses and «value - added» studies have captured policy makers» attention around the world, with a plethora of countries enacting policy after policy — see M. Akiba's book, Teacher Reforms Around the World.

Wisconsin, with good but stagnant achievement levels overall and some of the worst results in the U.S. for minority children, has not been a player on teacher reform issues that have swept across the United States.

This report from the New America Foundation by Lisa Guernsey, and Susan Ochshorn, argues for improving early education through teacher reform.

Labor, management collaboration key to teacher reform SI&A Cabinet Report: Ushering in what is being called a new era of education reform in California, top administrators, teachers, political and labor leaders said Monday they are willing to work together to implement suggestions for bettering the state's schools.

Often, these schools are taking advantage of the innovations offered by blended learning technology platforms and combining them with the regulatory freedom offered under charter school laws, waivers of seat time requirements, and teacher reforms to develop entirely new models of education.

Many who attended said the conference had sparked conversations well beyond the usual boundaries on thinking about U.S. education policy, whether the issue was teacher reforms, school choice, the development of common standards and school accountability, or the promise of learning online.

This same caucus split 50 - 50 when it came to expanding the Sunshine State's private school choice program, demonstrating that teacher reform is now more radioactive than vouchers.

Review of «Listening To Urban Kids: School Reform And The Teachers They

«Teacher reform is working and when you disguise something as an evaluation, that will unravel that reform.»

Praise and agreement can not lead to teachers reforming their teaching practices; it can only confirm and entrench teachers» current practices.

Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist vetoed a teacher reform bill that would have enacted performance pay and eliminated tenure after he was besieged by opposition.