A CAP event presents ways to improve teacher evaluations and use tenure more effectively. “We should have a common definition of teacher excellence—not just words on a page, but understanding and ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

I caught Secretary Duncan on NPR this week talking about teacher evaluations and other key issues surrounding education reform. Secretary Duncan talked about several studies that were recently ...

As I read article after article about value-added teacher evaluation, school turnaround proposals and the pros and cons of teacher tenure, I recall the annual ritual back in the 1970s in PS 95 in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston ISD leaders will decide how the district should grade its teachers at a school board meeting on Thursday night. The district appears to be backtracking. According to ...

Houston ISD's proposed evaluation system is largely in line with current research and practices, according to some experts, who raised some concerns about frequent classroom spot observations and ...

As legislators prepare to gavel out for the summer, one piece of pressing education business remains: Albany must finally reform the state’s broken teacher evaluation system and allow school ...

Colorado’s largest teachers union is challenging a 2010 law that includes a new procedure for teacher firings. The Colorado Education Association (CEA) has sued, saying the law is flawed because it ...

LANSING, Mich. — Teachers in Michigan will soon be evaluated under a different system, thanks to new legislation passed in Lansing last month. The two-bill package was signed into law by Governor ...

Lawmakers in the Assembly Education Committee approved a bill Thursday that would eliminate annual teacher evaluations, despite opposition from a majority of New Jersey’s education stakeholders, ...