Jan. 31—RALEIGH — North Carolina teachers with higher effectiveness ratings prior to the disruptions of the 2020-21 COVID-19 school year helped mitigate learning loss as students and teachers managed ...

Houston ISD is keeping larger shares of higher-rated teachers compared with lower-rated teachers in its evaluation system.

WILL enough Democratic lawmakers stand up to the powerful state teachers union to ensure teacher-effectiveness bills survive Thursday’s deadline for moving out of House committees? A similar deadline ...

The Los Angeles Times decided in August to publish "teacher effectiveness" ratings using "value-added" test scores, an action that not only did a disservice to teachers but also to the children of ...

Teachers play a crucial role in fostering children’s success in school. Policymakers must consider ways to support and prepare high-quality teachers while aligning expectation and opportunities for ...

“This suggests that focusing on [teacher effectiveness] alone is not likely to be the potent sort of intervention that really moves the needle on student outcomes,” he said, adding that maybe factors ...

Ulrich Boser and Robin Chait give four recommendations on how to improve teacher and principal effectiveness. If our nation is going to remain a global economic leader, we must ensure all ...

There’s been so much talk recently about “the effective teacher” that those of us out here in the schools are a head-spinning mess of contemplation and reflection. Am I this kind of teacher or that?

A New buzzword in education is value-added analysis, an unwieldy term masking a startlingly simple concept of measuring student progress and using it as one way to gauge teacher effectiveness. The ...

In Los Angeles Unified, novice teachers tend to be assigned students who are academically farther behind those assigned to experienced teachers. Before they depart, usually after only two years, Teach ...