Sentences with phrase «teachers were in favor»

CourseSmart has learned from the original pilot program that both the students and the teachers were in favor of the subscription model, which affords students a significant savings over purchasing stand - alone titles while also giving them nearly limitless portability and access to their course materials.

9 % of America's public school teachers were in favor of linking students» test scores to teacher evaluations.

41 % of teachers were in favor of charter schools.

Most teachers are in favor of the 9 a.m. start time and report that their students seem less tired, Araki said.

Readers scanning the site today should take a few minutes with the Orange County Register story linked under the «In Today's Headlines» section, which reports on some hopeful polling data showing that a growing number of teachers are in favor of abolishing their unions and implementing merit pay.

Not exact matches

Do your body a favor — ask your teacher if you are in position properly and be open to their assistance.

Fred, as I see it, most of the people lamenting the state of the church are those who have been in institutional churches where actual teachings of the Bible were ignored in favor of the concepts power - hungry teachers liked.

On the other hand, when teachers possess the authority of qualified experts in learning and in the guidance of learning, and when they are organized into strong professional bodies which faithfully exercise responsibility for high professional standards, they can freely teach with sole regard to individual aptitude and need and without fear or favor in respect to social class.

You've accused me of not knowing jewish history by quoting the bible, as if that's the only authority on jewish history and I should ignore my judaism professors, parents, rabbi, peers and sunday school teacher in favor of this horribly contrived and unreliable book.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

One of my own teachers told me a long time ago to be sure to understand all sides of an argument (and my extension is even to the point to argue in FAVOR of the other side).

In fact, some teachers and school staff worry so deeply about the negative impact of AP courses and feel so strongly that it thwarts their ability to develop deep thinkers and engaged learners, they've dropped their AP program in favor of home grown honors / advanced courses that are not affiliated with AP testing.In fact, some teachers and school staff worry so deeply about the negative impact of AP courses and feel so strongly that it thwarts their ability to develop deep thinkers and engaged learners, they've dropped their AP program in favor of home grown honors / advanced courses that are not affiliated with AP testing.in favor of home grown honors / advanced courses that are not affiliated with AP testing...

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, whose large Democratic conference includes legislators friendly to the state teacher's union and New York City residents, has said he would be in favor of a cap, but with some exemptions.

A state Supreme Court Justice has ruled in favor of a Great Neck teacher who sued the state over its teacher evaluation model after she received an «ineffective» on the rating tied to students» test performance — one year after being rated «effective» for similar scores.

The debate, for now, has been waged by groups in favor of making changes to the cap, including the New York State United Teachers and representatives of local government lobbying groups like the New York State Association of Counties, New York Conference of Mayors and the Association of Towns.

He is pro-public school teacher and loudly in favor of government ethics reform.

Keeping this terrible law is A CAMPAIGN AGAINST STUDENTS AND PARENTS in favor or substandard teachers

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are claiming that the inability to raise taxes by even a modest amount could mean cuts in the classroom.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are... [Read more...]

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The New York State Education Department is ditching the current testing company Pearson in favor of a company, Questar, that allows teachers to have more say in the tests.

Hawkins said Cuomo's fundraising is why he has favored corporate interests over the needs of workers, attacking teachers and unions, impeding efforts to make the minimum wage a living wage, and largely ignoring wage theft which costs low - income workers in NYC alone an estimated billion dollars a year.

As budget negotiations were going down to the wire in Albany, some 5,000 parents, teachers and students from across the state converged outside Gov. Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office for a March 28 rally that marked the culmination of their months - long campaign to stop him from pushing through radical changes to public education policy favored by his Wall Street backers as part of the state budget.

Both organizations are in favor of reducing class sizes and raising teacher salaries.

The state budget is due in two months, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a wide range of items that Democrats like and dislike, including an increase in the minimum wage, which they favor, and an expansion of charter schools, and tougher teacher evaluations, which they do not.

Setsuko has only enrolled in this English class as a favor to her niece Mika (Shioli Kutsuna), who is dating the teacher and needs the money from his lessons to move to America.

Perhaps inevitably, the viewpoint most favored is that of Cobie Smulders «science teacher, a white woman in a predominantly black school — so it's a mark of just how good relative newcomer Gail Bean is as her most promising senior - year student that the resulting story feels much more evenly balanced.

Agnieszka Holland, in cooperation with Kasia Adamik, Poland / Germany / Czech Republic, 2017, 128m U.S. Premiere Janina Duszejko (Agnieszka Mandat) is a vigorous former engineer, part - time teacher, and animal activist, living in a near wilderness on the Polish - Czech border, where hunting is the favored year - round sport of the corrupt men who rule the region.

At the beginning of the year we prided ourselves as a school that was moving away from traditional textbooks in favor of teacher - created, digital alternatives.

Since private employers have largely eliminated this benefit, this means that our estimate of the gap in retirement benefits favoring public school teachers is low, although we can not be sure of the extent of the underestimate.

In many schools, educators are transforming teacher - led parent - teacher conferences in favor of student - led meeting formats that engage students in the procesIn many schools, educators are transforming teacher - led parent - teacher conferences in favor of student - led meeting formats that engage students in the procesin favor of student - led meeting formats that engage students in the procesin the process.

When asked whether teacher salaries should be raised, no fewer than 61 % of Americans are in favor.

The percentages favoring merit pay, an end to teacher tenure, and increases in teacher salaries are all down about 5 percentage points.

Teachers, meanwhile, are evenly split on the standards, with 45 % in favor and 44 % opposed, as compared to 41 % support and 51 % opposed in 2016.

Levinson introduces the new (for me) and unwieldy term «Guided Experiental Civic Education» to describe the education for civic struggle she favors, and she goes far beyond education talk in showing how it has been worked into her own experience as a teacher, and how she hopes it will work in the future.

But 56 percent of independents thought teacher unions had «done more harm than good,» 54 percent supported school vouchers, and only 34 percent favored raising teacher salaries, once they had been informed about average salary levels in their state.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

Both surveys show that parents who do not know how much teachers are currently making favor an increase in teacher salaries.

For that reason, parents can be annoyingly inconsistent: They can favor better schools but oppose anything that reallocates resources, challenges teachers to improve, or threatens jobs in schools or the district central office.

But the three judges stopped short of ruling in favor of the teacher, stating in their decision that it was unclear whether...

(3) The irrelevance of most teacher college instruction to the real classroom is striking: clinical approaches are discounted in favor of misguided theory.

The percentage of teachers who favor incentives for «teaching in content areas of short supply» is only slightly less, at 82 percent.

In contrast, among those who think less highly of teacher performance — that is, respondents who rate at least three - quarters of teachers satisfactory or below — about 75 % favor merit pay.

On Wednesday a state judge in Albany ruled that student test scores on state exams could not be used for 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation and that NYBOR's and NYSED's cut scores for grading teachers was unfairly slanted to favor those student scores.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

This, to me, is an indication that, unlike many other careers (even non-prestigious ones), there is an assumption that teaching hasn't changed in the last 15 - 20 years, and that teachers don't hold enough expertise to be able to provide advice or fulfill a favor.

Meanwhile, the percentage of informed teachers favoring salary increases in 2016, at 79 %, is nearly as high as it was in 2008 (81 %).

He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - school route.

Despite her belief that «the most powerful way to learn something is to use it,» educational consultant and former Washington high school teacher Eeva Reeder says she would «have a hard time arguing in favor of [a project graduation requirement] unless it's done right.»