Sentences with phrase «teachers polled said»

The results are stark: 70 % of teachers polled say they would vote for the UK to remain part of the EU, while 23 % say they would vote for a Brexit, 6 % are undecided and 1 % say they wouldn't vote.

Not exact matches

Mr. Trump used the event to pitch his own ideas about how to prevent such debacles in the future, polling the group about whether they supported allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, an idea he said could have halted the carnage in Parkland.

Similarly, the Post / ABC poll shows that 29 percent of Republicans think stricter gun laws could have prevented the tragedy in Parkland, while 59 percent say armed teachers could have.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: · 24 % said they had experienced more discrimination or prejudice at work since the EU referendum result.

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.

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Two new Quinnipiac University polls show that New York voters trust the teachers» unions more than Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve education in the state, and two thirds of New York State voters say the Common Core aligned standardized tests are not an accurate way to measure how well students are learning.

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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.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

In addition the poll found that more than three quarters of voters (77 %) who were aware of New York City's current teacher evaluation system said it needed improvement.

Of the registered voters polled, 54 percent said they trust teachers unions more.

Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, said that in a lot of polls the teachers unions are not very popular with voters, but when it came to trust, they chose teachers over Cuomo.

«Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a bonus for new teachers to help pay off their student loans and $ 20,000 extra pay for those doing a good job and voters agree with both ideas,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

«If the governor is interested in improving his poll numbers on education, he should be visiting schools and talking to teachers and parents, rather than listening to his hedge - fund pals,» said Mulgrew.

Bob Holmes describes a poll revealing that most people said a serial killer was more likely to be a teacher...

Chris King, chair of HMC and headmaster of Leicester Grammar School, said: «The findings of this poll may surprise teachers and parents, but it will help them understand the pressures young people feel in the digital age.

In a recent Gallup poll, 43 percent of people said that they didn't want their children to become teachers.

«We've been polling teachers and students as we go, and students in particular are coming back to us saying they thoroughly enjoyed the experience, that they much prefer doing a test in an online environment.»

Responding to an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Poll, 26 percent of teachers said they spent money on such supplemental materials as videos, software, learning kits, and activity books; 25 percent bought basic needs such as pencils, paper, bandages, facial tissue, and food for hungry children; 22 percent purchased art supplies or science materials; 21 percent bought trade books to enrich their lessons and classroom activities.

«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.

PDK forces people to say they do have confidence unless they have «no confidence» in teachers, a polling strategy that will increase the proportion of positive responses.

(Methodological note: Also, the EdNext survey asked a representative sample of the public whether or not they supported the Common Core, but the PDK poll asked its question concerning teacher use of the Common Core only to those who had said they had some knowledge of the Common Core.

A poll by NASUWT of over 5,000 teachers union found one in ten say they have been prescribed anti-depressant drugs to cope with the pressure of their jobs and over 80 per cent have experienced sleeplessness.

A real - time electronic poll of attendees at the annual Women Teachers» Consultation Conference revealed that 36 per cent of respondents said they had been treated «less favourably» at work because they are a woman.

According to a poll of members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), 17 per cent of the 235 who responded about hate crime specifically said they feel there has been an increase in hate crime or speech in the last year.

Those polled also believe science teachers play a larger role than parents and others in inspiring an interest in science, with 70 percent saying teachers have the most influence at the elementary level, and nearly 90 percent saying teachers have the most influence...

The results follow a separate Randstad poll of 1365 teachers, where 30 % of respondents said they are considering leaving the sector in the next 12 months.

43 per cent of state secondary school teachers say they would rarely or never advise their bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge, according to a new poll published by the Sutton Trust

According to a real - time electronic poll of teachers attending a conference organised by union NASUWT in Scotland, 52 per cent said they had experienced or witnessed hate crime in the last two years.

The teacher poll, however, which focused on trends since 2015, when the Conservative government was last elected, found that 38 per cent said that the range of subjects available to pupils in their school had decreased since 2015.

Approximately nine out of 10 Americans say the way to improve student performance is to ensure a qualified teacher in every classroom, according to The Essential Profession, a national poll released by Recruiting New Teachers Inc. (RNT) and pollster Louis Harris.

For all the gibes, harsh rhetoric of the accountability era, and tsk - tsk» ing occasioned by polls in which people say they don't want their kids to be teachers, the reality is that people really like teachers.

In a nationwide poll of K - 12 teachers conducted by the Education Week Research Center, 77 percent said they were familiar or very familiar with growth mindset, but 85 percent said they wanted more professional development in the area.

Teachers in the South of England outside London were the most strongly in favour of staying in the EU with 74 % of those polled saying they would vote to remain.

Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and former president of Columbia University's Teachers College, told me what jumped out at him in the new PDK / Gallup poll was the increased percentage of parents who said they didn't want their children to become teachers: 43 percent vs. 33 percent Teachers College, told me what jumped out at him in the new PDK / Gallup poll was the increased percentage of parents who said they didn't want their children to become teachers: 43 percent vs. 33 percent teachers: 43 percent vs. 33 percent in 2005.

In fact, 61percent of respondents in the 2017 Education Next poll said we should increase or greatly increase teacher pay.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Three - quarters of public school teachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of Teacherteachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of TeachersTeachers today.

«This Gallup poll shows how important it is to have a strong teacher induction program,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

In a new poll out today, Americans say they want teacher preparation programs to raise the bar for entrance, provide longer training periods for practice teaching, and require new teachers to pass a rigorous certification exam akin to the ones required of lawyers and doctors.

But the state teachers union, which opposes charters, pointed out that the 400 - person telephone poll didn't define charters or give any facts about their success rate; instead, it said only that most states allow them.

Despite the fact that 95 percent of those surveyed in the August 2015 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on Public Education said that the most important way to improve schools is to improve the quality of teachers, professional development is often the first budget item to be cut or reduced.

According to a new NEA poll, teachers say they've had little or no training, and no say in developing curricula tied to the Common Core.

When asked specifically about the timeline to tenure — which can be awarded after as little as 18 months in the classroom — 38 percent said two years is too soon to award tenure, and 35 percent said public school teachers shouldn't receive tenure at all, the poll showed.

A poll taken in June, right after the Vergara decision was handed down in Los Angeles, found that 49 percent of California voters think that teachers unions have a «somewhat or very negative» impact on the quality of K - 12 education, with just 31 percent saying that they have a «somewhat or very positive» impact.

In a similar poll administered in SmartBrief's «ASCD K12 Leadership» e-newsletter, only 38 % of school leaders said that their evaluation systems support teacher growth.

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.

The post highlights some of the most compelling research, like over 90 % of teachers who responded to a SmartBrief poll said that filming their instruction would help them improve their practices.

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.