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Among 1,600 teachers polled from around the country, the percentage of teachers who are enthusiastic about the Common Core has dropped — from 73 to 68 percent in the last year alone.

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«A Pew Research poll showed that viewers of humorous news shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report exhibited higher retention of news facts than those who got their news from newspapers, CNN, Fox News, or network stations,» points out teacher Sarah Henderson in Edutopia.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

Tenney (32 percent) and Wells (31 percent) have distanced themselves from a third candidate, history teacher George Phillips (13 percent) of Endwell, according to the independent poll conducted by Liberty Opinion Research of Buffalo.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In the ongoing war between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York's teachers, the teachers are winning, according to a new poll out today from Siena College Research Institute.

Hawkins is at 9 % in the polls, and has been picking up endorsements from teacher and education groups, in addition to these progressive Democratic clubs.

Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: 55 % said that national standards for supply agencies would most help to secure better employment conditions for supply teachers; 83 % said supply agencies do not fully disclose all fees and charges they make for their services; 61 % said supply agencies do not act to ensure their safety, health and wellbeing at work; Nearly a quarter (24 %) said their supply agency does not make them fully aware of how much they will be paid for each assignment and the same number said they were not paid promptly and accurately by their agency; A third said their agency did not make them fully aware of the type of work they were expected to undertake; 15 % said that their supply agency prevents them from seeking work from other sources; 65 % said supply agencies do not respect and develop their professional skills; Nearly a third (32 %) said they would not recommend their main supply agency to other teachers.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

(WBEN) A new poll from the Siena Research Institute shows extensive support - among both Republicans and Democrats in New York State — for a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases but a split over arming some teachers and possibly banning the sale of assault style weapons in the United States...

Amid warnings from the Tory general campaign director, Lynton Crosby, that private polling showed Gove had become a toxic liability among teachers, the prime minister moved his education secretary to the lower role of chief whip.

Hawkins is at 9 % in the polls, and has been picking up endorsements from teacher and education groups, and more recently, from several Democratic clubs.

No comprehensive national studies have been done, but a 2011 poll of its members by the National Science Teachers Association found that 82 percent had faced skepticism about climate change from students, and 54 percent had faced skepticism from parents.

Ravitch forgot to include one detail: These findings came from a survey of representative samples of 700 teachers and 3,300 other American adults polled in May and June, 2015.

The poll was conducted by the school leaders» body the Association of Head Teachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) and collected responses from 2,511 tTeachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) and collected responses from 2,511 teachersteachers.

Brian Hendrickson, a sixth - grade social studies teacher at Hillcrest Middle School, in Trumbull, Connecticut, polled his students to find out how they feel their male teachers differed from their female teachers.

New research released today by BookTrust, polling 500 primary school teachers across the UK, found nearly three quarters of teachers (71 %) believe that children need support from school and home if they are going to become readers.

As you can see from the results of our poll, most of our audience is very worried about teacher training.

A poll conducted by TES has found that a third of teachers do not support the new - look GCSEs, which will be introduced from September.

«We believe the union leadership orchestrated an uninformed «no» vote by failing to provide information to teachers in our schools and by withholding from them a proposal that would have modified the plan in a manner designed to address teacher concerns raised by a poll in March,» the statement said.

The 2017 poll gathered responses from a nationally representative, stratified sample of 4,214 adults aged 18 and older, including representative oversamples of teachers (669), parents with school age children living in their home (2,170), and Hispanics (805).

Even more surprising were the results that came from phone polls conducted in January and March of 2003 asking teachers their opinions on ProComp just before the vote to adopt the new program.

The 2016 poll gathers answers from a nationally representative, stratified sample of 4,181 adults aged 18 and older, including representative oversamples of teachers (609) and parents with school age children living in their home (1,571).

It was created from a poll that asked teachers what kinds of gifts they appreciated the most:

The poll gained responses from more than 1,000 teachers across the UK.

The poll of 800 teachers found that nine - in - 10 teachers thought caring responsibilities could impact negatively on young carers» school lives as it could mean they were late or absent from school or have trouble keeping up with work.

The poll was conducted by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and Teach First on behalf of the Fair Education Alliance and received over 2,500 responses from teachers, school leaders and heads across Teachers (NAHT), the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and Teach First on behalf of the Fair Education Alliance and received over 2,500 responses from teachers, school leaders and heads across teachers, school leaders and heads across England.

No Common Opinion on the Common Core Also teacher grades, school choices, and other findings from the 2014 EdNext poll By Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

The YouGov poll of 800 teachers found that nine - in - 10 teachers thought caring responsibilities could impact negatively on young carers» school lives as it could mean they were late or absent from school or have trouble keeping up with work.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

Also teacher grades, school choices, and other findings from the 2014 EdNext poll.

In both treatment conditions, the statements about public and teacher support were drawn from the 2013 Education Next / Harvard University Poll on School Reform.

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The predictable headline from today's polling data will be that 81 percent of respondents favor a certification exam for teachers.

The poll provides strong evidence from a nationally representative sample that most Americans support merit pay for teachers, while teachers oppose the policy by a large margin; there is strong opposition among the public to teacher tenure, while teachers favor it; and teachers are significantly more opposed to the federal RttT program than the broader public.

And even higher percentages of people surveyed — 77 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Independents and Democrats — think higher raises should go to teachers who improve student achievement, according to recent polling results from the Teaching Commission.

According to the 2017 Education Next poll, support for merit pay for teachers among the general public has dropped from 67 percent in 2010 to 46 percent in 2017.

ARLINGTON, Va. — More than 80 percent of Americans agreed that teachers should achieve Board certification in addition to be being licensed to practice, similar to professions like law and medicine, according to results from a national poll by PDK International and Gallup released today.

Polling 2,000 teacher - respondents, NPR found shared chronic concerns over: 1) teacher pay amid calls to improve teacher quality; 2) the rising cost of higher education; 3) the increasing reliance on loans to pay for it; and 4) changing policies from the Trump administration.»

The result: 60 percent of respondents said they oppose, which isn't all that surprising since the question hits on what we know, from the poll, is opponents» greatest fear: that the Core will somehow limit teachers.

According to a poll out today by Education Next, a quarterly education journal from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, 40 percent of teachers said they opposed the Common Core — more than triple the 12 percent who said they were against the standards in 2013.

News from New York, the city whose most vulnerable kids are under siege from Randi Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers: A new Quinnipiac Poll finds a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of the education policies of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has followed Randi's radical agenda chapter and verse.

Most parents with children in public schools do not support recent changes in education policy, from closing low - performing schools to shifting public dollars to charter schools to private school vouchers, according to a new poll to be released Monday by the American Federation of Teachers.

Summary: This article reports on the results from an Education Week poll of K - 12 teachers asking them about their familiarity with the topic and their readiness to use if effectively in their teaching.

According to the poll, 25 percent of teachers value feedback from outside observers like district officials, and 81 percent say feedback from outside observers is less important than feedback from principals and others within their school.

View CCSSO and BloomBoard survey results from polling state leaders and teachers on opportunities for teacher leadership.

The first thing that jumped out at me was the how both the teach plus press release and the edsource coverage of that release played down and ignored (respectively) what is perhaps the most important piece of information from the poll related to tenure, which was how teachers believe tenure impacts the quality of the teaching force.

And it was really no surprise to me that in a recent poll Insight conducted with SmartBrief Education, 70 % of teachers said that they did not receive enough meaningful feedback from observations.

Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.