Video footage of students sight-reading a musical score, or reciting a speech from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Digital photos of students’ self-portraits. Samples of student-penned research papers ...

With the pressure on to increase student learning, two states are in the process of overhauling what analysts say is among the most neglected pieces of the teacher-quality continuum: evaluation. Both ...

Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...

As public school districts struggle with the myriad issues associated with COVID-19 and the Governor’s Order closing schools, announced on March 12, 2020, a means to continue student learning is every ...

On a recent afternoon veteran social studies teacher Robert Waldo sat in his Sacramento classroom explaining the goals of the next lesson in his Advanced Placement Government class. He wants his ...

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 ...

Houston ISD's Board of Managers greenlit a new teacher evaluation system Thursday ahead of the district's expected upcoming shift to pay for performance. Trista Bishop-Watt, from Houstonians for Great ...

At the recent swearing-in celebration for NY State Senator Jessica Ramos in Queens, I asked a few NY State Senators about a recently passed bill that allows school districts to uncouple state test ...

Houston ISD made yet another change to the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform in their classrooms, one of the major components of teacher evaluations that ultimately determine salaries ...

Houston ISD plans to use the state-approved teacher appraisal system to evaluate teachers this year after a judge blocked the initial system from going into effect. The appointed HISD Board of ...

April 15 is more than a deadline to file taxes for educators across the state. It begins the path to a whole new world. The state Department of Education wants school districts to file new plans by ...