Wendi O’Halloran, a former teacher and a director at Northwestern State University’s School of Education, talks about why Louisiana’s teacher evaluations are important and how educators can use them ...

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 ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

With increased public interest in school accountability, area school districts are trying to come up with ways to adjust their teacher evaluation plans to keep up with changing state laws. “I don’t ...

CAP experts discuss the need for holistic and comprehensive teacher evaluation systems so students don’t lose out. For more of this event, click here. The United States is currently failing many of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screen displays the Houston ISD logo during a school board workshop at the Hattie Mae White Education Support Center, Thursday, ...

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 ...

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. board members received an annual update on the school system’s teacher evaluation plan and its results, showing scores for teachers are consistent with previous ...

Lawmakers in the Assembly Education Committee approved a bill Thursday that would eliminate annual teacher evaluations, despite opposition from a majority of New Jersey’s education stakeholders, ...

Negotiations between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to tweak the state’s new teacher evaluation system continued into the final hours of the 2014 legislative session. A few days before an ...