Miami University stresses the importance of high-quality teaching and its impact on student learning and recognizes that there are differing professional views on the nature and utility of evaluation ...

You can hardly open a newspaper or major magazine today without finding a story about another incarnation or overhaul of teacher evaluation. But underlying nearly all these detailed descriptions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hatched by economists, bureaucrats and politicians, the theory, back in the dawn Race To The Top era, was this: We would adopt standards nationally (Common Core) and then test those nationally ...

At a time when teachers’ unions are pushing back on newly redesigned evaluation systems, the debates are starting to find their way into the courts. The latest action comes in Tennessee, where the ...

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 ...