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Poll: AFT Members Support Both Common Core and High-Stakes Moratorium

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 32, Clicks: 4)
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Liana Heitin -- In an encore to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten's speech in New York City this week, in which she called for a moratorium on high stakes linked to common-core testing, the union released the results of a poll on how members perceive the new standards.

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AFT Poll of 800 Teachers Finds Strong Support for Common Core Standards and a Moratorium on Stakes for New Assessments Until Everything Is Aligned

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.aft.org (Views: 56, Clicks: 6)
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Three-quarters of public school teachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of Teachers today.

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NEA, AFT Partner To Build Common-Core Tools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 28, Clicks: 6)
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Catherine Gewertz -- The two national teachers' unions have won $11 million to build an online warehouse of instructional tools for the Common Core State Standards. Student Achievement Partners, whose founders led the writing of the standards, is also a grantee. It will work with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association and their teachers to build the tools and post them on Student Achievement Partners' website.

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Missouri raises the bar on teacher preparation

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.stltoday.com (Views: 59, Clicks: 12)
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"What we’re looking to build is a way to capture that performance and score whether or not that teacher is doing a good job in the classroom before they get into their own,” said Hap Hairston, director of educator preparation for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. “Are we getting the right people to go into teaching, and are you developing them with what they need to teach?”

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Teachers leaning in favor of reforms

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 61, Clicks: 4)
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Jay Mathews -- Teachers appear to be changing their minds about how they should be hired, assessed, paid and dismissed. This merits attention because we cannot have good schools if teachers are not happy with their compensation and working conditions.

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Testing for Teachers: Moving Towards Rigorous Assessment

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 45, Clicks: 4)
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Ilana Garon -- This week the American Federation of Teachers, our national union, proposed a new tool in teacher evaluation: a sort of "bar exam" for teaching that would be required for anyone entering the profession.

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Union Calls For Teacher Certification Exam

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.npr.org (Views: 56, Clicks: 4)
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Schoolteachers should have to pass a stringent exam — much like the bar exam for lawyers — before being allowed to enter the profession, one of the nation's largest teachers unions said Monday. The American Federation of Teachers called for a tough new written test to be complimented by stricter entrance requirements for teacher training programs, such as a minimum grade point average.

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Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Improve Teacher Quality

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.huffingtonpost.com (Views: 136, Clicks: 5)
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Randi Weingarten & Dan Domenech -- We believe that governors in several states have taken a misguided approach to teacher quality -- they're enacting legislation that would give teachers much less, or no, input into how they are evaluated, how to support or dismiss struggling teachers, and how to make other changes that improve student achievement. In essence, they want teachers mostly to be seen and not heard. That's not the route to great teaching and learning.

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Union Chief Faults School Reform From ‘On High’

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 148, Clicks: 7)
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The president of the American Federation of Teachers called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”

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Leaders Call for Shared Curriculum Guidelines

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 184, Clicks: 2)
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Seventy-five respected leaders in education, business, and government issued a call this week to devise shared curriculum guidelines for the new common standards.

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Bipartisan Group Backs Common School Curriculum

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 196, Clicks: 1)
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The proposal would go beyond the academic standards in English and mathematics that about 40 states adopted last year, by providing specific guidelines about what should be taught in each grade.

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Leader of Teachers’ Union Urges Dismissal Overhaul

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 135, Clicks: 1)
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A plan by Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, would give tenured teachers who are rated unsatisfactory a maximum of one school year to improve.

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Reform and the Teachers’ Unions

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 118, Clicks: 2)
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New York Times Editorial -- The country’s second-largest teachers’ union has wisely chosen to help shape reform rather than block it.

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Union Chief Seeks to Overhaul Teacher Evaluation Process

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 101, Clicks: 0)
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Facing criticism that her union makes it too hard to get rid of bad teachers, the head of a top union is tapping Kenneth R. Feinberg to run an effort to create a new model for evaluation.

0 comments | Tags: teacher evaluation randi weingarten national education association american federation of teachers student achievement | Topic: Teacher Pay BAD >_<

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A Serious Proposal

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 109, Clicks: 0)
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BOB HERBERT -- The American Federation of Teachers should follow its president’s recommendation to accept a form of teacher evaluation that takes student achievement into account.

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