It said they come at a time when educators are under unprecedented pressure to improve student performance.
Result: Student performance remains miserable, and schools are even less integrated than before.
The primary disagreements were over who has the power to hire and fire teachers, and accountability for student performance.
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When hiring decisions and salary increases are not based on student performance, schools are virtually certain to be misallocating capital.
An afterschool program, for example, can rack up good points for keeping down costs and improving student performance on standardized tests.
Now, there are some charter schools that are doing a great job, and you are seeing huge increases in student performance.
The SILs taught the staff how to collect and analyze data on student performance and led discussions about strategies to address deficiencies.
No one yet knows whether this new approach will translate into dramatic improvements in student performance or teacher retention, but Schorr is hopeful.
And in any case, education researchers have been unable to produce any consistent evidence that low pupil- teacher ratios actually do improve student performance.
In the recent case of Chicago, the teachers union resisted the notion that 30 percent of their evaluation should be based on student performance.
Among other things she's proposed changes to the tenure system that would offer six-figure salaries to teachers willing to link their paychecks to student performance.
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The LearnSmart Advantage suite enables institutions to adopt adaptive learning as an institution-wide practice, creating a cycle of student performance improvement across disciplines and classes.
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The city's nearly 30, 000 teachers walked out on September 10, objecting to a longer school day, evaluations tied to student performance and job losses from school closings.
What we should be doing is rewarding and replicating the success of schools that have figured out a way to raise their standards and improve student performance.
In 2010, the school ranked first in its county in student performance in math and reading and ranked among the top 10 percent of all Arizona charter schools.
With the launch of SmartBook and the rest of the LearnSmart Advantage suite, we continue to lead higher education in using adaptive technology to help improve student performance.
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With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--SAT scores, SAT participation rates and graduation rates.
Every student performance indicator has improved he says and over the last two years the state has ranked second in the country for achievement on college-level courses taken in high school.
Both Tennessee and Louisiana changed their charter school laws to meet Race to the Top criteria, and California dropped from its books a law that made it illegal to tie teacher evaluations to student performance.
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Eric Hanushek, an economist at the University of Rochester, reviewed almost 400 studies of student achievement and found that, after controlling for family background, there is no consistent link between student performance and school resources.
Medbery says the round will be used to expand the New Orleans-based Kickboard team and invest further into product development, particularly better dashboards for teachers that offer new and unique ways of visualizing student performance.
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But in order to do that, he said, the states have to demonstrate that they're serious about increasing accountability by doing things like tearing down "firewall laws" that prevent districts from factoring in student performance when evaluating teachers.
Connecticut is set to revamp the way it evaluates public-school teachers with a vote Wednesday that is expected to create a rating system based on student performance, classroom observations and, to a smaller extent, anonymous student and parent surveys.
With more than 1 million unique student users "Since the launch of LearnSmart in 2009, we've developed a deep understanding of how personalized learning through adaptive technology helps improve student performance, " said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
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With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT, depending on which is more common in the state), exam participation rates and graduation rates.
The opinions of students, regularly used at institutions of higher education, have been shown to correlate with overall student performance at the middle-school level, said Thomas Kane, a professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who has studied the issue.
The answer they came up with was to make peace with the teachers unions that had been demonized by the previous administration and with the teachers that had been so badly 44 demoralized and they invited them to join them in thinking through a reform program that would improve student performance.
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At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
At issue were the length of the school day, tying teacher evaluations to student academic performance, and potential job cuts.
The research, based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey, found that a teacher's gender had "large effects on student test performance".
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