Video footage of students sight-reading a musical score, or reciting a speech from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Digital photos of students’ self-portraits. Samples of student-penned research papers ...

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 ...

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 plans to use the state-approved teacher appraisal system to evaluate teachers this year after a judge blocked the initial system from going into effect. The appointed HISD Board of ...

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 ...

Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...

Cambridge Public Schools has doubled its staff since 1998, while the district’s student population — and their test scores — remain largely unchanged. “All of our educators are great, and yet there’s ...

Hatched by economists, bureaucrats and politicians, the theory, back in the dawn Race To The Top era, was this: We would adopt standards nationally (Common Core) and then test those nationally ...

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, ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around ...

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 ...