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JACKSON: Tenure reform crucial to improving urban schools | The Asbury Park Press NJ | ... - 0 views

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  • The Black Ministers’ Council has long supported, and continues to support, efforts like the Opportunity Scholarship Act for children in our lowest-performing urban schools.
  • a teacher’s ability to increase student achievement on standardized assessments tracks improved life outcomes for those students in critical areas,
  • Our urban students are more likely to be assigned an inexperienced teacher — which is bad for both the teacher and the student — more likely to have a substitute and more likely to have a teacher teaching out-of-subject specialization.
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  • Given the premise that teachers are vital and that students’ ability to demonstrate their knowledge is equally important — which should seem obvious but is hotly contested — it only follows that the conference and acquisition of tenure should be linked in some manner to these factors.
  • We change how teachers are evaluated and how we reward them with the prestige of tenure.
  • What is true here is that the current system is utterly unfair to students
  • an excellent teacher and a quality education.
  • Randy Ebright on 18 May 12
     
    This article discusses how many urban schools struggle with the plague of inexperienced and/or ineffective teachers because teachers with experience, as well as those who have proven to be effective, are often drawn away from urban schools and into suburban/private schools. Additionally, this article states the if the goal is to give each student an equal opportunity to succeed in the classroom and in life, then teachers need to be evaluated based on their students' scores and not on years of experience so that each school can have effective teachers. 
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