Value-added teacher evaluation has been extensively criticized and strongly defended, but less frequently examined from a dispassionate scientific perspective. Among the value-added movement’s ...

The Los Angeles Times has now posted online their controversial database of teachers' value-added performance. This is extremely interesting if you are an LA teacher or have a child in that system ...

Some vehemently oppose the inclusion of students' standardized test scores in teacher evaluations. With the accuracy of value-added analysis in question, what are other ways to measure teacher ...

She was evaluated under the the D.C. teacher evaluation system, called IMPACT, a so-called "value-added" method of assessing teachers that uses complicated mathematical formulas that purport to ...

Los Angeles Unified’s board of education voted today to overhaul what people within and outside the district say is an ineffective teacher evaluation system. The board wants the overhaul to ...

Value-added teacher evaluation—a method that estimates the contribution teachers make to student’s test-score gains—is a concept whose time has most definitely come. Californians are entitled to know ...

As I read article after article about value-added teacher evaluation, school turnaround proposals and the pros and cons of teacher tenure, I recall the annual ritual back in the 1970s in PS 95 in ...

The Houston Federation of Teachers and a group high-achieving individual teachers have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the "value added" teacher evaluation system recently implemented ...

DES MOINES --- The slide shows an athlete mid-leap, body mostly horizontal to the earth, back bent over a thin yellow high-jump bar.

DES MOINES - The slide shows an athlete mid-leap, body mostly horizontal to the earth, back bent over a thin yellow high-jump bar.

DES MOINES — The slide shows an athlete mid-leap, body mostly horizontal to the earth, back bent over a thin yellow high-jump bar.