Sentences with phrase «use against educators»

Unfortunately, there's a long history of people in education taking useful ideas and strategies and, instead of being happy with them as just another useful addition to help our students, they make them in bludgeons to use against educators, schools, students and their families.

If the new scores are higher, then the original ratings could not be used against the educators in firing or tenure decisions.

Not exact matches

While bullying has a long and sordid history in American classrooms, a November 7, 2016 article in The Nation asserts that the current surge is notable in two respects, both for the similarity of its targets - Muslim students, immigrants and children of immigrants, children of color, girls, and Jews - and the language used against them, leading some educators to suggest a link to Donald Trump and the «degraded course of this election season.»

Using Renaissance solutions, our educators are handily winning the competition against video games and other modern distractions to develop classrooms full of passionate readers.»

Needless to say, when a public education cabal uses a communication system funded by taxpayers to lobby against those same taxpayers while helping create PACs dedicated to electing tax - and - spend educators, any action in opposition becomes like screaming into the wind.

Against a broad background of increased interest in educators «uses of data, we were motivated to pursue this strand of our research by five broad issues.

: Although Wikipedia is probably the most widely - used reference source today, many educators still warn against its use.

Accordingly, I present here the «Top Ten Bits of VAMmunition» research - based reasons, listed in no particular order, that all public school educators should be able to use to defend themselves against VAMs.

Los Angeles Unified's teachers union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school district, saying administrators failed to negotiate key changes to a controversial performance evaluation system now being used to review educators.

Attendance accounted for an extra 10 percent, if educators used all 10 days of their sick time — but even if one day was used, it still counted against them and had the potential to change their rating from «effective» to «ineffective.»

Renowned as an artist, writer, critic, television host, filmmaker and educator, over the past 60 years O'Doherty has invoked various identities in pursuit of his art, most notably Patrick Ireland, the artistic alias he adopted in 1972 and used for 36 years, as a patriotic protest against Bloody Sunday.

In this Article, I will argue that, as legal educators, we must balance our use of technology for pedagogical purposes against the importance of preserving linear, text - based literacy.