Sentences with phrase «war on teachers»

Which means he declared war on the teachers unions, parents groups, education schools, and special education lobby.

Indeed, the proposals were the equivalent of a declaration of war on the teachers unions and their membership.

«Our fight against Cuomo is a big battle in the corporate reform war on teachers and education,» said Chapter Leader Mike Scarcella.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

«Mayor (Michael) Bloomberg and his administration declared war on the teachers and the schools of New York City once they got their third term,» Mulgrew said.

Prominent education historian Diane Ravitch, for example, has gone so far as to allege that reformers are waging a «war on teachers» that threatens to undermine, rather than improve, teacher quality.

This is not a war on teachers but a straightforward move in what must be a concerted national effort to lift the performance of our students.

The teachers unions will undoubtedly fall back on the tired rhetoric that this is a «war on teachers.»

Hanushek's key insight is that «we are seeing not a war on teachers, but a war on the blunt and detrimental policies of teachers unions,» especially when it come to purging classroom ranks of a smallish number of chronically weak instructors.

Writing in the Journal on October 19, Eric Hanushek declared that «there is no «war on teachers.

While these findings provided some support for what has been termed «the war on teachers» (Giroux, 2013; Goldstein, 2015), in which the «intelligence, judgment, and experience that teachers might offer in [current education] debates» are ignored (Giroux, 2013, p. 3), a more holistic look at my findings provides some support for Eric Hanushek's (2011) proposition that there «is not a war on teachers en masse.»

For years, teachers» unions have claimed that education reformers are mounting a «war on teachers.»

Now, in the Midwest and Republican - dominated states across the country, we are witnessing what a war on teachers really looks like.

This feels like a natural but unfortunate extension of the overheated rhetoric around things like the Common Core and teacher accountability, where one side dismisses concerns as evidence of small - minded idiocy and the other thunders about a «war on teachers.»

This isn't a war on teachers.

Hansen places these teacher protests in the context of a national «war on teachers» narrative, fueled by working conditions declining, erosion of benefits and increased spending on charter schools and vouchers for families to attend private schools.

It is outlandish to think, when the outcomes for many of these children is prison or teen pregnancy that this is a war on teachers.

«We have to be clear, understanding what people are up to and what they're doing: the de-professionalization of teaching and the attack on public schools and the war on teachers, 30 years of war on public schools,» Slekar said.

Any proposal they didn't like, they labeled part of a «war on teachers.»

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So we are seeing not a war on teachers, but a war on the blunt and detrimental policies of teachers unions.

Teachers unions have fought back with a «war on teachers» narrative, but school vouchers have gained significant ground.

Here's an article, «Are Trump and DeVos Waging a War on Teachers?»

There Is No «War on Teachers» There is a growing bipartisan agreement on the importance of rewarding good ones.

Predictably, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers — PFT's parent union — charged into the fray, calling the move (yawn) «a war on teachers.»

The story, «The War on Teacher Tenure,» is mostly about the Vergara decision — in which a judge found that the tenure, seniority and dismissal statutes in the California education code are unconstitutional.

Teachers» unions and parents revolted, saying that the governor had declared war on teachers and that there was already too much emphasis on standardized tests.

And it's time to stop the war on teachers, Clinton told the delegates.

Which means he just declared war on the teachers» unions, parents» groups, education schools, and the special - education lobby.

I directly confronted his line of reasoning, and accused The Los Angeles Times of being part of a war on teachers.

«This is not a war on teachers en masse.

Of course, Dr. Hanushek does not see this as a «war on teachers.»