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 ...

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio -- The teacher on the video had clearly worked hard on her lesson. Before class, she had made a poster showing more than a dozen fractions and the topic of the day, the decimals and ...

LANSING (AP) - Michigan teachers and school administrators will work within a new evaluation system based partly on students' improvement on standardized tests under a law signed by Gov. Rick Snyder ...

Evaluation used to measure performance against a standard isn’t, in and of itself, a bad thing. It can present a picture of how someone, or a group, makes progress toward a stated target, over time.

The Christie administration will roll out its long-awaited regulations for teacher evaluations on Wednesday, including outlines for how student achievement will be used in grading teachers and ...

After months of negotiations, the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have reached a compromise that will now use a controversial multifactor system to evaluate teacher ...