Sentences with phrase «terms of a new teacher evaluation system»

The teacher's union, which is locked in a bitter war with Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the terms of a new teacher evaluation system, has repeatedly slammed the administration for using closures as a key method for turning schools around.

Not exact matches

In terms of the mayor's statement about «serious negotiations» surrounding teacher evaluations, he is the one who walked away from $ 70 million in federal money by refusing to negotiate a 33 - school pilot program of the new evaluation system.

Last weekend, the rank - and - file of United Teachers Los Angeles overwhelmingly approved new contract terms for a teacher evaluation system — and unlike in the past, both sides agreed the talks had gone smoothly.

I also argued (but this was unfortunately not highlighted in this particular article), that I could not find anything about the New Mexico model's output (e.g., indicators of reliability or consistency in terms of teachers» rankings over time, indicators of validity as per, for example, whether the state's value - added output correlated, or not, with the other «multiple measures» used in New Mexico's teacher evaluation system), pretty much anywhere given my efforts.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.

The teachers on the left side of the bell curve (see below) were more accurately identified this year, and the teachers on the «right» side became more effective due to the new and improved teacher evaluation system constructed by the state... and what might be renamed the Hogwarts Department of Education, led by Hanna Skandera — the state's Voldemort — who, in this article pointed out that these results evidence (and I use that term loosely) «that the system is doing a better job of pointing out good teachers.»

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, emboldened by winning a second term without backing from the AFT's Empire State affiliate, will likely team up with Republicans in control of the state senate to push to improve an array of reform measures, including a further revamp of the teacher evaluation system.

He sent this to me for my thoughts, and I decided to summarize my thoughts here, with thanks and all due respect to the author, as clearly we are on different sides of the spectrum in terms of the literal «value» America's new teacher evaluation systems might in fact «add» to the reformation of America's public schools.