Tennessee’s overhaul of teacher evaluation in 2011 led to sharp backlash and higher teacher turnover in the immediate aftermath, but a new study in the American Educational Research Journal finds that ...

Stakeholders’ favorable views of a new teacher-evaluation program thus far suggest that the reform may be gaining traction in the district and that it could improve key outcomes for students.

For several years now, teacher evaluation has dominated education-policy discussions in statehouses and otherwise. But for the most part, the country’s 430,000 special education teachers have been ...

John H. Tyler examines the challenges and potential solutions to evaluating high school teachers. A central part of education reform today is the wide-ranging and unprecedented effort to either revamp ...

While teacher evaluations remain a controversial topic in education reform, the Achievement First charter school in Bridgeport, Conn. uses a model of consistent evaluation, feedback and other ...

In the two months since the Michigan Legislature passed teacher evaluation reform, there's been confusion among Ann Arbor teachers as to what is expected of them. A small but vocal group of Ann Arbor ...

Read the Tulsa Public Schools teacher evaluation form. You can’t fire your way to excellence. It’s not just a phrase teachers and administrators use in discussing Tulsa Public Schools’ cutting-edge, 4 ...

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 ...

How do we define teaching quality? How should teachers be evaluated? And how should school systems make use of the evaluations? Vivien Stewart, senior advisor to Asia Society and the author of the ...

Ceresta Smith sits in her language arts classroom at John A. Ferguson Senior High School on Thursday, April 21, 2016. MARSHA HALPER [email protected] When Mayade Ersoff got her annual evaluation ...

After a career as a chef, Gloria Simpson knew she wanted to teach, and when she got the opportunity in 2002, she jumped at the chance to pursue her dream. Simpson spent 15 years as a culinary teacher ...