The Star had a worthwhile idea for an education story. Two writers decided to look at how districts in the Tucson area handle teacher evaluations. The interactive map on the website and the chart in ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...

South Dakota's Board of Education Standards halted a plan to remove student growth from teacher evaluations. The decision comes after internal concerns and the anticipation of legislative pushback.

SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) — While the number of students who opt out of state assessment testing is expected to triple this year over last, the question remains how teachers will be evaluated. An ...

The South Dakota Education Department hopes to once again ask lawmakers to remove a specific student learning requirement from the state’s teacher evaluation rules. The legislative committee ...

Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill to revamp the teacher evaluation system, aiming to move beyond standardized testing as the sole measure of student improvement. The proposed pilot program ...

In its two decades of existence, the website RateMyProfessor.com has become notorious on college campuses. While some students turn to the review site for informal evaluations of their prospective ...

When Georgia first won its $400 million Race to the Top grant and we learned in detail what the state promised to reform in four short years, I was astounded. The long list of reforms did not seem ...

The University Committee on Evaluation of Teaching recently released a status report on the evaluation of teaching system at Virginia Tech. The committee, formed in March 2007, met monthly through ...

Miami Gardens Democratic Sen. Shevrin Jones filed the Senate measure (SB 182), with Gainesville Democratic Rep. Yvonne Hinson ...