Among the most absurd hallmarks of the high-stakes standardized testing era are teacher evaluation systems that assess teachers on the test scores of students they don’t have and/or subjects they ...

WHY teach? Why would any adult in their right mind want to become a public-school teacher? Before we go too far down the “reform our schools” road, maybe we should have an answer to that question. Not ...

But earlier this year, when Prior received his teacher evaluation, he was deemed “minimally effective”—earning just 33.25 points out of a possible 100 in the “student achievement” category that made ...

Research evaluated priority populations in North Carolina and South Carolina to assess direct impact to a diverse educator workforce, leading to an eight-percentage point increase in pass rates ...

Kicking off the next six weeks of guest bloggers is John Thompson, a former inner-city teacher and self-described “anti-reformer.” In a previous life, John was an award-winning historian before ...