Sentences with phrase «teachers serving disadvantaged»

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

A likely consequence is that schools and teachers serving disadvantaged student populations will be disproportionately counted as underperforming.

Not exact matches

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.

In particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantage.

Few parents or business leaders know that disadvantaged children often fall further behind the longer they are in school or that schools serving the disadvantaged often have the least experienced teachers and suffer the highest rates of teacher turnover.

NCLB has been a great success in the sense that no one disagrees with its goals: accountability for results, addressing issues of teacher quality, putting a spotlight on the learning of all students, and better targeting of funds to districts serving the most disadvantaged students.

And this has an impact on schools serving highly disadvantaged populations, because the more - experienced teachers who leave these schools are generally replaced with new teachers.

After months of intense opposition to his plan for overhauling the way New York City funds its schools, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has agreed to retool a piece of his proposal that, in part, sought to put more veteran teachers in schools that serve the most disadvantaged students.

Researcher Marguerite Roza and others have produced considerable evidence that teachers in schools serving the most - disadvantaged students have lower average salaries... [and] there is also evidence that these schools tend to have more teachers with emergency credentials and without regular certification... The problem is that these readily measured attributes of teachers have virtually nothing to do with teacher effectiveness.»

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in which he lamented the fact that many high schools that serve disadvantaged students and students of color lack highly effective teachers.

This is so senior teachers can choose the schools they believe are the best workplaces — most often schools in nicer neighborhoods with students from higher - income families — while newer teachers with no seniority rights and fewer choices tend to work in more disadvantaged schools serving poorer students.

By incorporating teacher and student input into the gorgeous new middle school that will serve the district's most disadvantaged students starting next year, Frederick County is also ensuring that those early benefits it is carefully cultivating continue to grow.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

Teach First is a salaried route into teaching, which combines teacher training within schools serving disadvantaged communities with leadership development.

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

Besides the grossness of a billionaire setting up a company claiming to advocate for economically disadvantaged students, we have the fact of high teacher turnover in the districts serving these students — and a large proportion of TFA.

For nearly a year, the Center for American Progress — together with the teacher, civil rights, business, and education communities — worked with Congress to move an education bill that better serves all students, particularly those who are most disadvantaged.

In addition to training and developing 11,000 teachers and future leaders in schools serving disadvantaged communities since 2003, we've supported 800 of our former trainees to access professional leadership training since 2015.

Figure 2 — Distribution of Teacher Characteristics Across K — 6 Schools, by Location K — 6 schools serving more - disadvantaged students have a higher percentage of less - prepared teachers.

Teacher Denise Casco at Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy in San Fernando said the inclusion of student achievement could disproportionately affect her because she serves a more disadvantaged community than others in the district.

This administration needs to serve more than a salmon dinner to indicate they sincerely want to support good teachers for disadvantaged students.

The worst is the effect on teachers and the teaching profession: the erosion of public support for them and their work, the image of teachers as under attack from every quarter, the plummeting applications to teachers colleges, the flight of teachers from schools serving disadvantaged students and from the profession generally, the fall in teachers» salaries relative to those of others and the attacks on their benefits.

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

Third, we find considerable differences in teacher support and teacher influence on instructional policies and practices between charter schools and traditional public schools, which might help explain the higher returns to experience on teacher effectiveness as well as the observed effectiveness gaps between charter schools and traditional public schools serving disadvantaged students.

It is a fact that, on average, students in high - needs schools that disproportionally serve the needs of disadvantaged students have less access to teachers who have certain teacher - quality indicators (e.g., National Board Certification and advanced degrees / expertise in content - areas, although these things are argued not to matter in this brief).

LE collaborates with schools and school districts that serve economically disadvantaged students to maximize the leadership development of mid-career teachers, which ultimately improves the quality of teaching and learning in schools.

A 2010 state report found districts that serve disadvantaged students are more likely to draw young, inexperienced teachers assigned subjects in which they had little training.

And schools serving high proportions of disadvantaged students are more likely to employ less - experienced teachers and lower concentrations of teachers deemed highly effective.

Education policy makers are particularly concerned that teacher turnover may have adverse effects on the quality of instruction in schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children.

It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects.

But what if, instead of changing the principal, teachers, or management in the hope that this will turn around a high - poverty school, we changed the mix of students, rebalancing enrollment so that the school did not serve a concentration of the most disadvantaged students?