Sentences with phrase «turning against the teacher»

The tide has turned against the teachers unions, and they are in defense mode.

On Tuesday Education Next editor - in - chief Paul E. Peterson sat down with Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal to discuss the forthcoming PEPG - EdNext poll showing that the public is turning against teachers unions.

Paul Peterson talks with the Wall Street Journal about a new survey showing that the public is turning against teachers unions.

Saying, «Oh, he needs to work on getting to class on time» will show your kid that you're on his side, without turning against the teacher.

Not exact matches

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

Susan Stark, the chapter leader at PS 88 in Ridgewood, Queens, said more than 100 teachers, paras, guidance counselors, parents and students turned out to demonstrate in front of the school — wearing yellow hardhats with a sign stating «Caution: Protecting Our School Against Cuomo.»

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

They include Aziz, a former hard - partying college student who now heads the organization; Hamoud, a cofounder of RBSS, who strengthens his resolve by watching the video ISIS took of the execution of his father (a brother was subsequently murdered and another is missing); Hussam, a law student turned reporter who was nearly nabbed by ISIS with encrypted video on his phone; and Mohamad, a former math teacher who joined the revolt against Assad after a student was arrested and has since followed up with resistance to the caliphate.

The election turns into a struggle of wills between Matthew Broderick's wormy high - school teacher and Reese Witherspoon's overbearing know - it - all Tracy Flick, but resentful mediocrity doesn't stand a chance against relentless ambition.

«Breaking Bad» did have a star name, of a sort, with Bryan Cranston going firmly against type as the mild - mannered chemistry teacher - turned - drug kingpin.

As their bodies and powers grow, so does the danger surrounding them, forcing Harry to turn to Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, who prepares Harry for the confrontation of his life.

Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

Even Teachers Are No Fans of Forced Union Payments Wall Street Journal, 7/15/15 «These findings should not be extrapolated to say that teachers are turning against their unions more geTeachers Are No Fans of Forced Union Payments Wall Street Journal, 7/15/15 «These findings should not be extrapolated to say that teachers are turning against their unions more geteachers are turning against their unions more generally.

As I have repeatedly said would eventually happen, the teacher unions are turning against Common Core in New York and threatening to do the same in other states if high stakes tests aligned to those standards are put in place.

While it's hard to compete against the burning desire of a learner who wants to enjoy some time with these websites, you can, if you're wizard teacher, bring these competitors to your camp and turn them into soldiers that corroborate your learning objectives by tapping on what attracts learners to your competitors and therefore build your learning strategy according to that.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

However, as we know that teachers are the ones whom these young people spend the majority of their days with, that they have far greater time to spread a message that normalises these issues, and in turn, can help to combat against the negative effects of them.

According to Paula, Dr. Caraway thought they were «trying to bribe the teachers and turn them against her,» so she left a message on Paula's answering machine telling her, «Oh you can't do this, the DOE, it's against the rules,» and then, thinking she had hung up, continued to say on the machine, «Just wait til Ms. ---- and Ms. ----(referring to Paula and her friend) hear that!

For second - grade teacher Jacqueline Fiorentino, the minor benefits of homework did not outweigh the potential drawback of turning young children against school at an early age, so she experimented with dropping mandatory homework.

Even as the tide appears to be turning against tracking, there's one group that isn't entirely on board with getting rid of the system: teachers.

These findings should not be extrapolated to say that teachers are turning against their unions more generally.

And it turns out that, even after policies were changed, principals still were not sure what poor teaching looked like, still did not want to upset their staffs, and still did not think giving a negative evaluation was worth the ensuing tension and hassle — especially given contractual complications and doubts that superintendents would back up personnel actions against low - rated teachers.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

Turn parents against their children's teachers and other public employees.

In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a charter school and the teachers union fights against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and more school choice.

A decision against CTA in Friedrichs could raise havoc with the unions if many teachers decide to keep their money and not turn it over to the union.

Fashioning themselves the «United Students Against Sweatshops» (it's okay to laugh at that), these kids have taken TFA to task for being «the man» — and for turning teaching into sweatshop - like work by allowing some selected recruits to enter the classroom without slogging through the entirety of traditional teacher prep.

Casey would go on the next year to accuse news anchor - turned - teacher quality reform activist Campbell Brown (along with several other reformers) of committing «the equivalent of a blood libel» against teachers for daring to expose the complicity of the AFT's Big Apple local (and that of the national union) in keeping criminally abusive teachers on the city's payroll.

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Marlene Romero and Hebert Hidalgo claim that, because they support a takeover of McKinley by the Celerity Educational Group, teachers at the school have been trying to intimidate their children into turning against them.

Are teacher unions turning against Common Core?

After winning a hard - fought battle against the teachers union to impose a new teacher evaluation system, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has turned to evaluating the training programs that...

And would any statistical sleight of hand to correct for «missing data» stand up in court against a teacher who was fired or a school that was taken over by the state for a «turn around»?

This will assuredly turn a group of teachers against a principal quickly.

While the move by the state's teachers» union turned enough heads to make it seem like a rare occurrence, both national and local teachers» unions have recently made endorsements and donations to some Republicans who speak and vote against their values.

It must create a rather perverse satisfaction for conservative parents across the country to watch the teachers union engage in mob rule in Madison and see public opinion turn against them.

After winning a hard - fought battle against the teachers union to impose a new teacher evaluation system, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has turned to evaluating the training programs that produce the city's teachers.

Because billionaires evidently need to be defended against public school teachers and parents who are concerned about hedge fund managers bent on destroying their kids» schools and turning teaching into an entry - level gig.

Based in Cape Town, McDaid started out as a teacher - turned educational advocate and activist against apartheid before turning to faith - based environmental justice.