By the end of the 1990s «New Labour» made a commitment to
teacher workforce reforms designed to remove administrative burdens from teachers and principals.
Not exact matches
A project aimed at lifting the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
teachers and principals in Australia has released a detailed
workforce profile it hopes will lead to lasting
reform.
«For the first time we can accurately quantify the numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
teachers in our schools, and plan effective
workforce reform strategies for our people with the confidence they are based on robust evidence,» MATSITI Director, Professor Peter Buckskin, tells
Teacher.
To build and maintain a qualified
teacher workforce in today's labor market, states should fundamentally
reform their retirement benefit systems.
Given the importance of
teachers to student success, we focused on whether the
reforms changed the composition of the
teacher workforce and whether they changed the supports that
teachers were receiving in their work.
The article also describes how the
reforms changed New Orleans schools and, in particular, their
teacher workforce.
The effects of the
reform on the
teacher workforce have been particularly meaningful in schools with higher percentages of black students because they were more likely to have
teachers extended rather than granted tenure.
The nation's largest
teachers union has voiced its support for a variety of
reforms to improve the teaching
workforce.
David Rattray, senior vice president of education and
workforce development for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, co-chaired a transition committee in the wake of the
reforms, and says that there is still a need for changes throughout the arc of the process, from recruiting students to continuously developing experienced
teachers.
He is a domestic education and
workforce development specialist with almost 40 years of experience in the design, development, and management of projects and programs dealing with educational policy,
teacher education and professional development, college and career readiness,
workforce development, and systemic
reform.
Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the
Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school
reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas
teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how
teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.
Collective bargaining and
workforce reforms are also matters considered by AAE member
teachers.
Just as corporations have revamped the private white collar
workforce, replacing full - time, salaried personnel with «temporary» workers — a system in which some managers are officially temps — such are the prospects for
teachers in the brave new corporate world of education «
reform.»
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New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut has taken a major stride toward cultivating a
workforce of diverse
teachers who represent the evolving face of our student population, with state representatives voting unanimously this afternoon to pass SB 455, which
reforms teacher certification in the state.
Our report provides the first in - depth analysis of the impact on pay of this major
reform using the the School
Workforce Census, a national census of all English state school
teachers.
This paper describes
teacher tenure
reforms first enacted by the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) during the 2009 - 10 academic year (AY) and the changes in the district's
teacher workforce following the
reforms.