Sentences with phrase «widespread teacher support»

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You've heard the horror stories about the schools: kindergartens with a dose of amoral sex education; teachers sowing gender confusion with the hearty support of administrators; violence and widespread drug use in the tony prep schools that train tomorrow's elites; depression, eating disorders,....

Teachers «do not yet have widespread support from principals, districts, and states to learn how to implement it,» says Chen.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher unions.

Denver's merit pay system, known as the Professional Compensation System (ProComp), is currently touted as the model system for merit pay because it had widespread support, including from teachers and parents when it passed about five years ago.

Trump also said he would support merit pay for teachers and use the bully pulpit afforded by the presidency to advocate for candidates who run on making «school choice» more widespread.

As the use of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) has become more widespread in schools, terms such as tiers, benchmarks, universal instruction, as well as strategic and intensive intervention have become familiar to many teachers.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

Despite the initial, widespread support for the Common Core, a significant number of parents, teachers, scholars, and policy - makers across the aisle are now opposed to the Common Core, though they generally oppose different aspects of the standards and their implementation.

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy applauded Governor Jerry Brown's decision today to veto AB 375, a controversial teacher dismissal bill which had widespread teacher union support.

But widespread complaints from teachers without such support have prompted union plans to start its own training.

But while NEA officials and teachers say they strongly support Obama for a second term, there is widespread dissatisfaction among teachers about federal education policies — especially concerning Obama's promotion of charter schools, and accountability policies that they say unfairly penalize teachers.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, has received widespread attention for its «Peer Assistance and Review» plan, in which principals and «consulting teachers» evaluate teachers through observation, work closely with those in need of support or improvement, and make firing decisions when necessary.

When TNTP set out to identify what actually works to foster widespread teacher improvement, they found no clear patterns of support.

I thought it very important to share with you all, as he does a great job deconstructing one of the most widespread claims being made, and most lacking research support, about using the data derived via value - added models (VAMs) to inform and improve what teachers do in their classrooms.

The widespread support that Chicago parents gave their children's teachers indicates the many points at which the interests of parents, teachers and students go hand - in - hand.