Stakeholders’ favorable views of a new teacher-evaluation program thus far suggest that the reform may be gaining traction in the district and that it could improve key outcomes for students.

John H. Tyler examines the challenges and potential solutions to evaluating high school teachers. A central part of education reform today is the wide-ranging and unprecedented effort to either revamp ...

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 ...

Student evaluation of teaching (SET) is widely used to measure the quality of teaching, and often controversially, for teacher recruitment, promotion and tenure. Institution-led SET is largely ...

You can hardly open a newspaper or major magazine today without finding a story about another incarnation or overhaul of teacher evaluation. But underlying nearly all these detailed descriptions of ...

Read the Tulsa Public Schools teacher evaluation form. You can’t fire your way to excellence. It’s not just a phrase teachers and administrators use in discussing Tulsa Public Schools’ cutting-edge, 4 ...

Alison Courchesne conducts her Framingham High class while Stand for Children's Jason Williams, right, evaluates her. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The effectiveness of the teacher is one of the most ...

Teachers are rated on the form as either Effective, Requiring Improvement, or Unsatisfactory. The vast majority of local teachers receive an evaluation that says they’re effective, which isn’t ...