Sentences with phrase «teachers than the threat»

There was a groundswell of support, and let me tell you, there is nothing more galvanizing to librarians and dedicated teachers than the threat of censorship.

Not exact matches

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

CITY HALL — City Council members blasted Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott Wednesday over threats to cut more than 6,000 teachers, questioning the city's numbers and insisting there are better ways to cut costs.

«I don't see it as an idle threat,» said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the powerful New York State United Teachers union that has won far more battles than it's lost in Albany for its 600,000 - plus members.

In other words, teachers under threat of dismissal were more likely to voluntarily leave than teachers not subject to this threat, and those who scored furthest from the «effective» threshold were even more likely to go.

Rather than seeing technology as either a threat to or poor substitute for teachers, we need to determine how best to use technology to enhance teachers» capabilities.

Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff found that dismissal threats increased the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers by more than 50 percent.

Just because Atlanta principals and teachers felt real pressure to improve, the sources of that pressure and the threat behind it are more complex than NCLB alone.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teacherteachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago TeachersTeachers Union.

PURE, Parents Across America, More Than a Score, the Chicago Teachers» Union, and other groups are co-sponsoring an important forum on the threat to student data privacy.

But so much of this debate is about the rhetoric rather than the reality - and head teachers have been bristling at the language of threats to send in teams of new leaders to «failing and coasting schools».

During the speech (which featured a talk show host - style walk - through and a less - than - sincere effort at folksiness with her «welcome home» to the crowd), Weingarten complained that reformers and cost - cutting governors have made «threats» to the lives and livelihoods of teachers and others within AFT membership.

«The government should look to and learn from the light touch accountability systems of high - performing countries such as Finland and New Zealand which are based on trusting schools and teachers to do the best by their students, rather than the issuing of threats or penalties.»

BAT is the acronym for Badass Teachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instTeachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instteachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instructors.

Now that the teachers have a new contract that sets salaries higher than before, they are turning to other priorities, a list of issues that includes the threat of union dilution through an increase in the number of non-unionized charter schools.

I am, after all a teacher, and this seemed like a good opportunity to explain why, for example, I thought more attention should be paid to sea level rise, which is ongoing and unstoppable and carries a real threat of acceleration, than to the unsupportable claims that the ocean circulation was undergoing shutdown (Nature, December 2005).