Determining teachers’ impact on test scores isn’t enough to measure effectiveness—policymakers must also look at how teachers affect their students’ behavior, a new study suggests. In fact, teachers’ ...

Over at The Washington Post, Jay Mathews has done a great job of digging into the District of Columbia’s IMPACT teacher evaluations, which couple five performance-based observations with value-added ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years. It's just one example of how ...

WASHINGTON -- A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years. It's just one example of how policies ...

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 ...

Plans to tie public school teacher evaluations to student performance on state standardized tests will likely be delayed at least another year as the State Education Department continues to mull over ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Despite the rocky relationship between City Hall and the United Federation of Teachers, State Education Commissioner John King is confident the two sides will eventually agree ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a bill that revamps the state’s teacher evaluation system, giving more control to local districts and eliminating the requirement that students' test scores ...