Sentences with phrase «teachers based partly»

Merit pay for teachers based partly on student test scores is «a joke,» he says.

So far, just 16 states are evaluating their teachers based partly on student scores, and most of them are doing so for the first time this school year, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality.

It was only when the development of assessments began, and the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) No Child Left Behind waiver process included clear requirements for evaluating teachers based partly on student test scores, that the unions began to balk.

Not exact matches

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

Based on a year - long research project, the report states that many teachers and pupils feel that statutory assessments «do not adequately capture pupils» achievements», partly because the accountability system «incentivises schools to pick certain qualifications».

The peer evaluators are experienced classroom teachers chosen partly based on their own TES performance.

To gain a waiver, states will have to adopt college - and career - ready standards and tie state tests to them, adopt a differentiated accountability system that focuses on 15 percent of their most troubled schools, and craft guidelines for teacher - and principal - evaluation systems that will be based partly on student growth and be used for personnel decisions.

Across the country, evaluating teachers partly based on student test scores remains very controversial.

Los Angeles - area charter schools have won a $ 60 - million grant to develop a teacher - evaluation system based at least partly on student test scores.

One week before the bill was slated for a vote in the Senate Education Committee, however, the bill was stripped of several key provisions, including a requirement that teacher tenure be based partly on performance evaluations rather than just length of service.

Now, 15 states have policies that base teacher tenure partly on student test scores, up from eight just a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group, StudentsFirst.

But the parties face roadblocks on other issues such as increased payments to fund health benefits and a new teacher evaluation system based partly on students» standardized test scores, she said.

Partly based on the belief that supposed experts in education (including principals and superintendents) should be the ones to make decisions in schools and districts, as well as driven by the efforts of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to maintain their declining influence (as well as maintain the grand bargain of sorts between the unions and its members that drive NEA and AFT revenues), traditionalists tend to argue that the perspectives of teachers are the ones that mattTeachers affiliates to maintain their declining influence (as well as maintain the grand bargain of sorts between the unions and its members that drive NEA and AFT revenues), traditionalists tend to argue that the perspectives of teachers are the ones that mattteachers are the ones that matter most.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

In Louisiana, teacher preparation programs are now judged partly on the test scores their graduates» students earn — part of a growing national movement to assess education schools based on their results.

An education reform bill circulating this week would require kindergarten screening exams and teacher evaluations based partly on test scores, but doesn't update the state's system for holding schools accountable for student performance.

And Rhee exercised unique powers granted to a D.C. chancellor to impose a teacher evaluation system based partly on student outcomes and to lay off teachers based on a lack of merit rather than a lack of seniority.

Teachers have complained the Best and Brightest program is unfair — it awards bonuses partly based on standardized test scores — disadvantaging older and minority educators.

It also evaluates the training programs on how well the teachers they produce scored on the city's new evaluation system, which is based partly on standardized test scores.

With the change, states will not be required to report on the «success rate of teacher - training programs, partly on the basis of graduates» employment and evaluations of their work.»