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 ...

Most agree that grades alone mean little. Everyone who grades or has been graded knows the snapshot effect leaves so much out. They are single moments in time measures. They can, however, impact ...

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 ...

Recent National Assessment for Educational Performance statistics show Iowa is no longer at the top in public education and is moving in the wrong direction. The report shows only one-third of Iowa's ...

This school year has begun with a number of changes related to teacher tenure, evaluations, and dismissals. On August 4, 2023, Governor Pritzker signed into law Public Act 103-0500, revising the ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

Finally someone gets it right ["Some students being set up to fail," Opinion, Sept. 29]! I recently retired as a special education teacher after nearly 30 years, teaching K-8 in Queens. I experienced ...

Strong letters of evaluation that provide professional schools with the sort of information they want can be a major part of a successful application. Poorly written letters or letters that are ...

The latest ploy being used to justify cutting funding for education and for perceived lack of student achievement is teacher evaluation. Ron Tomalis, of the Pennsylvania's Department of Education, ...