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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This story was updated on April 30 to include the status of the Republican-sponsored bills. The Legislature’s top Democrats have made a comprehensive rewrite of the law on teacher evaluations a ...
Picture our public schools in the year 2018. What follows is an attempt to see a few short years into the future, to understand how current reform proposals may develop. I have been highly skeptical ...