Last week, the LA Times published a report examining the effectiveness of over 6,000 LAUSD elementary school teachers, but the findings caused many members of United Teachers Los Angeles to call for a ...

Value-added teacher evaluation has been extensively criticized and strongly defended, but less frequently examined from a dispassionate scientific perspective. Among the value-added movement’s most ...

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 ...

An eye-catching new statistical analysis by economists at Harvard and Columbia universities finds that having a high-quality teacher for even one year can have a measurable long-term impact on ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In Los Angeles, ...

Most people assume teachers are held accountable for student learning — seems obvious considering why we have teachers in the first place. In fact, until last year, five states had laws explicitly ...

Quick: name your five best school teachers or college professors, the individuals from primary school through graduate school who made a difference – a big difference – in your education and your life ...

McGill University credits General Electric with developing value analysis, also known as value engineering, as a practice during the late 1940s. Value analysis is a methodical approach to sharpening ...

When the teacher's body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Rigoberto Ruelas' death became a flash point, drawing his city's largest newspaper ...