Buoyed by the promise of federal funding and a burgeoning dialogue about teacher effectiveness, districts are beginning to overhaul their evaluation systems to provide more finely grained information ...

Houston ISD is collecting feedback on a new teacher evaluation system it aims to launch next academic year. Eighteen campuses, called "Trailblazers" by the district, are testing the system, and ...

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 ...

Education officials in Tennessee are taking flak from teachers and unions for rushing the implementation of a new teacher-evaluation system that will eventually undergird tenure decisions—a move, some ...

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 ...

After a career as a chef, Gloria Simpson knew she wanted to teach, and when she got the opportunity in 2002, she jumped at the chance to pursue her dream. Simpson spent 15 years as a culinary teacher ...

Houston ISD overhauled the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform during spot evaluations of their classrooms, one of the major factors in teacher evaluations that determine salaries under ...

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, ...

Renewed calls for cooperation over teacher evaluations were made on Tuesday a day after the House ended nearly a year of political deadlock by approving a new system as teachers unions said it was not ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come ...