Sentences with phrase «tied to student»

Both 24 years old at the time, they carried about $ 35,000 in debt between them, mostly tied to student loans.

These plans are also tied to student loan forgiveness and discharge programs, though it is difficult to qualify for forgiveness or discharge.

These findings have implications for accountability measures tied to student loan default rates.

Deferments are directly tied to the student loan program, or terms of the private student loan, where student loan forbearance is an agreement between you and the lender.

Sometimes these duties are strongly tied to the student's eventual thesis topic.

If you are deployed on active duty, the Department of Education waives some documentation rules that are tied to your student loans.

Despite a student's prior academic ability, with CourseSmart Analytics and the CourseSmart Engagement Index, a course instructor can have an unobtrusive, real - time method to identify students at risk of academic failure that is not tied to student activity on a Learning Content Management System.

Achieving Proficient / Advanced attendance is directly tied to student achievement.

Decisions are particularly difficult when funding is tied to student performance.

Nevertheless, three - quarters of teachers surveyed by the Rutgers team said they were not worried that the new evaluations — including those newly tied to student performance would have a negative impact on their tenure protections.

Some limited restorative progress was made during the last session in the adoption of an A-F performance grading system for schools and districts tied to student achievement, but, true to form, most educators, administrators, and school boards have risen in opposition to this grading system and are working to overturn it or at least further water down its underlying standards and rigor.

The competition departs from the way the federal government distributes most of its education aid: complicated formulas tied to student enrollment that send money to every state.

Should Iowa teacher pay be tied to student test scores?

That helps clear the way for an Obama priority: teacher pay tied to student performance.

However, many teachers voice concerns about their evaluations being tied to student achievement given the multiple variables that affect student achievement.

Under Obama's framework, teachers with weak ratings tied to student achievement could lose their jobs, while high ratings could mean bigger paychecks.

The state adjusts each district's basic allotment by factors that aren't tied to student need.

High - performing teachers should earn more pay, tenure should be more difficult to achieve and teacher reviews should be tied to student test scores, a Los Angeles school district panel is expected to recommend Tuesday.

Eligibility for voucher dollars is often tied to a student's family income.

As for teacher evaluations tied to student test results, the state does not require a certain percentage at this time, but that does not mean local districts can't require it if they so choose.

Dueck, a high school history teacher, discusses alternative practices to punitively grading homework: tying in - class quizzes to specific practice homework (started in class); using a grade of «incomplete» and interventions to support students until they finish; and using projects tied to student interests.

During his tenure in New York, King ushered in practices such as teacher evaluations tied to student performance and supported the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments, all of which garnered a significant amount of public pushback.

We're talking to school boards, superintendents and other organizations about endorsements, and working on a piece of state legislation that would place a moratorium on state - imposed consequences tied to student test scores.

We need a more structured evaluation of the curriculum created (e.g., modified text and use of e-reader tools) and the effects of instruction (e.g., evaluations tied to student learning gains and student engagement).

Both the income requirements and the priority tied to a student's existing school mirror Jindal's MFP vouchers.

The district has called for adoption of a teacher - performance - evaluation system tied to student academic growth.

The National Council of Teacher Quality reports that 13 states require teacher evaluations to be tied to student achievement.

Three features of school cultures that have been tied to student learning are:

That said, we need extrapolate only a little to question the current direction, and underlying theory of action, beneath the continued press to tighten the screws on the package of high - stakes testing, school accountability, and educator performance evaluations tied to student achievement scores (which, as I noted in a previous Educational Leadership column, researchers caution is fraught with concerns of its own).

Their definition of success is tied to student learning in classes taught by those teachers.»

Professional learning is directly tied to student needs from a variety of sources, including both test scores and samples of student work, teacher observations, and student interviews and surveys.

Additionally, critical state funding is often tied to student attendance.

If teacher evaluation is to be tied to student performance data, we should ensure that data represent students taught by the teacher being evaluated.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Part two of the moratorium would ensure that test scores are not tied to student graduation requirements.

As described in IDRA's new book, Courage to Connect: A Quality Schools Action Framework, teaching quality is one of four indicators that are tied to student success.

According to the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll, 71 percent of Americans said teachers should be paid on the basis of their work, and 54 percent said salary should be «somewhat closely» tied to student achievement.

It does not call for merit pay tied to student test scores, which Bloomberg has supported and the city teachers union has said it would never accept, nor does it support Bloomberg's recent proposal to offer permanent pay raises to teachers who earn top ratings on new evaluations.

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

· We must aggressively encourage the creation of a competitive critical mass of privately and publicly sponsored alternative preparation and certification programs as well as other non-traditional routes to the profession so as to «let many flowers bloom» and create an atmosphere of competitive certification, with value - added assessment of the graduates tied to student achievement.

The judge's decision allows for a range of methods for evaluating teachers tied to student performance, including grade - point averages and pass - fail rates.

* We should fully define «highly qualified teacher» for Texas not just in regulatory terms, but in terms of the qualities and performance that are expected, which will necessitate a re-evaluation of the strategic policy document, «Learner - Centered Schools for Texas: A Vision of Texas Educators», adopted in 1997, as well as the transformation of educator employment terms from «contract» to «at will», with enhanced compensation based on performance tied to student achievement.

Over the border in Georgia, Gwinnett County has developed a «Results - Based Evaluation System,» in which fully 70 percent of the score for schools and their principals is tied to student achievement, as assessed by indicators including standardized test scores and measures of where schools are in closing the achievement gap.

After several years in which teachers» unions have been hammered on the issue of tenure, have lost collective bargaining rights in some states and have seen their evaluations increasingly tied to student scores, they have begun, with some success, to reassert themselves using a bread - and - butter issue: the annual tests given to elementary and middle school students in every state.

The delay in approval was because of state legislation that required educator evaluations to be tied to student performance by the 2016 — 17 school year, one year more than was permitted by the waivers.

Therefore, teachers and their salaries are a key cost driver tied to student enrollment... However, it is not always possible to reduce teacher costs proportionate to losses in revenue.

Tennessee and Delaware distinguished themselves by committing to bold, comprehensive reforms, such as creating rigorous teacher evaluations tied to student learning and making big changes in failing schools.

Many states are adopting teacher evaluations and pay structures tied to student test - score data rather than years of experience, degrees, and classroom observations.

But when teacher and administrator evaluations are tied to student performance based on one test, it overlooks the complexity of the individual students.

The Obama administration also required that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance for states seeking waivers from the mandates of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and California as a result did not receive a waiver, although six districts, including LA Unified, did receive them.