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 ...

So-called "value-added analysis" is being used all over the country as a measurement of public school-teacher performance. It is strongly promoted by President Obama's Race to the Top in education. LA ...

DES MOINES - The slide shows an athlete mid-leap, body mostly horizontal to the earth, back bent over a thin yellow high-jump bar. Iowa Department of Education director Jason Glass puts a laser ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been using value-added analysis in evaluating its teachers ...

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 ...

Schools have been placing more emphasis on teacher evaluations over the last decade, but a new report shows that the way those evaluations are done may need some serious revision. The report, from the ...

With Florida teachers' final evaluation results due to the Department of Education on Friday, the Florida Education Association is asking Gov. Rick Scott to suspend the statutory obligation requiring ...

California’s public school teachers are the highest paid in the country, earning about $63,000 a year on average, along with generous health-insurance and pension plans. Their salaries and benefits ...

Stating it was "not irrational" for Florida or its school districts to use a value-added model for teacher evaluations, a federal appeals court has ruled against a Florida Education Association ...

So-called value added evaluations of teachers are the flavor of the day. Test scores can provide an absolute measure of the effectiveness of teachers, the supporters say.