At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those ...

Teacher evaluation--with all its multiple facets, blind alleys, disputed data models, technocratic hype and roll-out problems-- is on every principal’s mind these days. It would be great to think that ...

When I arrived as the superintendent of the New London, Conn., schools in 2009, the local board of education made it clear to me that its primary goal was to improve student achievement and close ...

Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test ...

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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 ...

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.

ALBANY — Student test scores and classroom observations will be used to assess New York educators under a new evaluation system announced Thursday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo heralded as a national model.

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