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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 ...

The Minnesota Student Association might have the remedy for students who are sick of boring professors. MSA President Tom Zearley announced this week that the group will conduct its own teacher ...

As legislators prepare to gavel out for the summer, one piece of pressing education business remains: Albany must finally reform the state’s broken teacher evaluation system and allow school ...

Louisiana is one of 32 states since 2009 that has revamped the way public school teachers are evaluated, according to a newly released national report. “The landscape is changing,” said the study by ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

Autopsies are the only public document for which access is limited to a subset of society, but Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state legislative leaders are trying to walk a tricky legal line in trying to ...

So what's the problem in Chicago, where 25,000 teachers in the nation's third-largest district have responded to an impatient mayor's demand that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance by ...

It is now commonplace for students to evaluate their professors, usually by filling out bubble sheets late in the term. A typical form has a dozen or more questions, many with multiple parts. For ...

New teacher evaluations are all-consuming, they say. Jan. 29, 2012— -- Sharon McNary believes in having tough teacher evaluations. But these days, the Memphis principal finds herself rushing to ...