[Daily News] A Department of Education investigation after a surge in Regents' test scores at a Brooklyn high school found that an administrator there pressed teachers to rescore failing tests.
As an administrator, it also fell to him to press teachers from his school to attend the classes.
The Mexican bureaucracy is dominated by a teachers' union whose bosses are leaders of Mr. Zedillo's governing party, and they frequently press teachers to campaign for official candidates.
Similarly, facilitators need to press teachers' thinking in order to cultivate critical conversations and move away from surface-level judgments that limit teachers' opportunities to learn.
This is an area for possible investigation especially in light of the pending Olympics in 2012, which may press teachers even more to strive for elitism of the few.
By challenging, we mean PD leader moves that press teachers to reconsider, revise, or better support their ideas.
The Giuliani administration also revealed a stick it may use to press the teachers toward concessions.
It seems a practical impossibility to bypass the topic; students will inevitably press their teachers about the origin of life as such, and class time will be spent on it whether abiogenesis is in the syllabus or not.
But as Barend Vlaardingerbroek observes, "It seems a practical impossibility to bypass the topic; students will inevitably press their teachers about the origin of life as such, and class time will be spent on it whether abiogenesis is in the syllabus or not" (2010, p. 433).
Candles are passe, and how many bubble baths can a time-pressed teacher fit in?
In recent years, major school districts have pressed to hold teachers and principals accountable for the achievements of their students on standardized tests, with the worst performing schools shuttered.
