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 ...

District leaders and teacher unions nationwide have been wrestling over how teachers should be evaluated and how the results should be used in decisions about pay, assignments and job security. Change ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scoring scheme used to rate the performance of educators in Nevada should not change this year in order to bring an element of consistency to a system that’s been in perpetual flux, an advisory ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overall, 50 percent of a teachers' evaluation is determined by student performance, a practice the union has derided. “There's so much that students go through in their daily life that teachers have ...

Note: Paul Manna, a professor at William & Mary, is guest-posting this week while Rick Hess is on a consulting project in the Republic of Georgia. Let me wrap up this week by looking closely at one ...

EdSource · Some school lunches are getting a makeover. Will federal cuts set them back? On a recent afternoon veteran social studies teacher Robert Waldo sat in his Sacramento classroom explaining the ...

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 ...