Sentences with phrase «to reward the best teachers»

One needs to consider the impact of restrictive collective bargaining agreements that prevent rewarding good teachers and removing ineffective ones, intrusive court interventions, and useless teacher certification laws.

Lewis Solmon makes the case for rewarding better teachers with more money.

The fact that both teachers and students in schools participating in Project STAR were assigned randomly to classrooms allows for an especially rigorous test of whether a merit pay system can effectively reward good teachers.

You have an interesting situation with a Democratic administration and a Democrat as secretary of education saying that [teachers unions] have to give and you have to have some way of rewarding good teachers.

It's too bad we can't use the money we are wasting on meeting arbitrary numbers and divert it to where it will do more good, such as rewarding our best teachers with the pay they deserve.

Sir Peter Lampl, the chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said today: «Michael Gove is hoping that schools will use appraisal and evaluation to achieve real improvement and reward the best teachers more effectively.

But Cuomo has defended his proposals, saying he wants to reward good teachers even as he wants to remove poor performing teachers from the classroom.

She negotiated a groundbreaking teacher's contract to help reward the best teachers while getting rid of the worst.

He says the separation of teachers from test data is a major obstacle to the administration's goal of financially rewarding the best teachers.

It also talks about rewarding the best teachers, giving... which will actually help to actually make teachers seem more professional and make them feel more professional, give them more prestige.

The government says its planned changes to pay will improve standards, by rewarding the best teachers and that its academy programme gives schools freedom to innovate and deliver the best education for children.

Tuck supports rewarding good teachers and changing the rules to get rid of bad ones.

Bennett has said the evaluation mandate is oriented toward rewarding good teachers, not punishing bad ones.

The L.A. proposal envisions creating a «career ladder» to reward the best teachers with promotions and higher pay.

Despite widespread pessimism among educators about whether merit pay systems can effectively reward good teachers, most of the limited empirical evidence has been surprisingly positive.

Instead of rewarding good teachers, the net result of SB736 is to squeeze the current pay schedule until all teachers have given up their job protections

Excerpt: «Becky is committed to strengthening our educational system in Tennessee by attracting and rewarding good teachers.»

These reforms — accompanied by an unprecedented financial investment — will put students first by bringing accountability to the classroom, recruiting and rewarding our best teachers, further reducing over-testing, and finally confronting our chronically failing schools,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

Albany must act to strengthen the system to live up to its promise, and Mayor de Blasio must develop a plan to reward our best teachers and improve the worst immediately.»

«What was comforting is the public agreed with the individual policies of finding ways to reward the best teachers, finding ways to help attract teachers from the best schools at the top of the class to come to teach in our school system,» he said.

The program focused on reform in four areas, including improving systems that measure academic standards, turning around low - performing schools, recruiting and rewarding good teachers and adopting standards that properly prepare students for college.

That is why we have given all heads much greater flexibility to set staff pay and reward their best teachers with a pay rise.»

Communities need to find big ways to reward their best teachers.

A comprehensive system of merit pay could reward the best teachers and encourage the least - effective teachers to leave the profession.

Rewarding the best teachers can help them set the standard — or even raise the bar — of staff performance.

... We both agree that we need some way to remove the bad teachers and reward the good teachers.»

Our plans will recruit, retain and reward good teachers.

Ordinary voters are pragmatists, willing to try many different things, whether it be accountability, school choice, smaller classes, more spending, or rewarding good teachers.

It's hard to reward good teachers.

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones.

D.C. schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said in an interview that the study validates IMPACT's theory of action, which was to reward the best teachers, give assistance to struggling ones, and dismiss those not able to perform.

But Corbett's proposal that seeks to reward good teachers and filter out ineffective ones is based on a pilot program launched earlier this year, he told the state Department of Education earlier this week.

And it tells the stories of the country's two best - known reformers, Joel Klein in New York City and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., as they push to establish performance measures that will allow them to reward good teachers — and fire bad ones.

Eddie Goodall, executive director of the North Carolina Public Charter Schools Association, says charter schools already have the ability to reward the best teachers.

«In tight budget times, State dollars must be directed where they are needed most — rewarding our best teachers, supporting our best schools, especially those serving low - income students, and expanding educational options and opportunities for all Arizona students and families.

The current conversation suggests that if we can just find a way to get rid of those bad teachers in our ranks, and reward those good teachers, then all will be well with the world.

«In California, state law and local rules make it challenging for districts to reward their best teachers and remove their worst teachers,» said Dominic Brewer, a professor of urban policy the USC Rossier School.

Albany must act to strengthen the system to live up to its promise, and Mayor de Blasio must develop a plan to reward our best teachers and improve the worst immediately.»

It says the change will drive up teaching standards by giving head teachers flexibility to reward the best teachers.

«We should reward the best teachers.

Fellow board member Peter Sobol said though the law was billed as providing budget relief for school districts and local government, it could end up being harder on budgets as districts develop compensation models that combine their desire to reward good teachers and the need to keep them.

When former Gov. Mitch Daniels and then State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tony Bennett pushed a massive overhaul of teacher evaluation through the legislature in 2011, the promise was a bold new system that would reward the best teachers, weed out the worst and for the first time tie pay raises to student test scores.

Party leader Nick Clegg told the Daily Mail online that «quite a fierce debate» had taken place in government over the issue and suggested that the scope to reward the best teachers had been «resisted» by the Conservatives.

What is needed is pay flexibility, to reward the best teachers and dismiss the worst.»

Because it «works» in «business», Michael Gove and his DfE apparatchiks felt PRP should be rolled out for all teachers as well, back in 2014, suggesting that it would reward the best teachers, encourage teacher recruitment and retention.

Reward good teachers.

He zeroed in on a critical policy weakness in our efforts to recruit, retain and reward our best teachers and leaders, even though research has shown the quality of a child's teacher and school leader are the two most important school - based factor impacting a child's success.

Those include its early embrace of Common Core academic standards, the longer school day and a strong effort to recruit and reward the best teachers and principals.

«Today a single Wake County judge suppressed the will of voters statewide who elected representatives to improve public education and reward our best teachers with raises,» Berger's statement said.

The candidates also disagree on key issues, including how to improve low - achieving campuses, how to measure teacher quality, and whether to reward good teachers and principals with bonuses.