Tracking the teachers' days

Ashley Walls Jul 11, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>State lawmakers want a review of what public school teachers do all day — and they're willing to pay $25,000 to figure it out. The study will be conducted by Central Washington University's College of Education and Professional Studies, and will attempt to quantify complaints that</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashley-walls-crosscut-com/">Ashley Walls</a></p> 
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            <p>State <a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130718/NEWS01/707189935?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org#Teachers-typical-work-day-coming-under-scrutiny">lawmakers want a review </a>of what public school teachers do all day — and they're willing to pay $25,000 to figure it out. The study will be conducted by Central Washington University's College of Education and Professional Studies, and will attempt to quantify complaints that teacher's days are already too full to add more mandated tasks. The study is expected to report what percentage of teacher's time is spent on teaching-related activities, and what amount is spent on other duties. A full report is due in December, but, as The Herald's Jerry Cornfield reports, the legislators are likely to extend the study to the end of the school year to include tracking the time teachers spend on testing. Most standardized testing is in the spring (otherwise known as the season of student, parental and teacher complaining about how much testing is required).</p>
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State lawmakers want a review of what public school teachers do all day — and they're willing to pay $25,000 to figure it out. The study will be conducted by Central Washington University's College of Education and Professional Studies, and will attempt to quantify complaints that teacher's days are already too full to add more mandated tasks. The study is expected to report what percentage of teacher's time is spent on teaching-related activities, and what amount is spent on other duties. A full report is due in December, but, as The Herald's Jerry Cornfield reports, the legislators are likely to extend the study to the end of the school year to include tracking the time teachers spend on testing. Most standardized testing is in the spring (otherwise known as the season of student, parental and teacher complaining about how much testing is required).

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