TAP is a school-reform model oriented around teacher development. Originally founded by Milken Family Foundation and now operated by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, the program ...

Your Nov. 11 editorial regarding the inflated grades given to many local teachers who are obviously failing was excellent. When you take away the objectivity of the teacher evaluation process and make ...

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 ...

The bill would have allowed teachers with Colorado’s version of tenure to be evaluated every three years instead of every year. But lawmakers said it was the wrong fix.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Colorado’s largest teachers union is challenging a 2010 law that includes a new procedure for teacher firings. The Colorado Education Association (CEA) has sued, saying the law is flawed because it ...