Determining teachers’ impact on test scores isn’t enough to measure effectiveness—policymakers must also look at how teachers affect their students’ behavior, a new study suggests. In fact, teachers’ ...

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 ...

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 ISD is collecting feedback on a new teacher evaluation system it aims to launch next academic year. Eighteen campuses, called "Trailblazers" by the district, are testing the system, and ...

The state's jump on the federal government put it in a prime position to win money from the Race to the Top fund, Obama's signature education initiative, and in 2010 the president announced that Rhode ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it.As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come as ...

December 4, 2025 - A new literacy intervention program is being rolled out in San Diego, Alameda, San Mateo and Riverside counties, to help teenagers in juvenile detention grasp the basics of reading.

ALBANY — The thorny issue of teachers’ job ratings resurfaced Monday as the state Board of Regents considered how to implement a new evaluation system that puts much more responsibility in the hands ...

Imagine that the evaluation advocated by columnist Joye Brown in "Limited access to evals useless" [News, June 19] were in place. Would it improve a child's education? Basing 40 percent of a teacher's ...

New data and analysis released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds ample opportunities for improvement in states’ teacher and principal evaluation policies. With educator quality ...

I read the editorial from Aug. 24 on teacher evaluations, and there are some points that need clarification. I have been a public school teacher for 22 years and this new evaluation system is not ...