In the past three years, more than 20 states have passed legislation modifying teacher evaluation systems, and more have committed to do the same in Race to the Top or No Child Left Behind waiver ...

A new study has found that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher's first year in the classroom. A study ...

I recently covered the American Bar Association's rejection of a slate of Obama federal court nominees - all but one of them women, Blacks or Latinos. The lesson I took away from the news was the ...

Having clear, established processes for school boards to evaluate superintendents is important to ensure everybody’s on the same page and working toward the same goals. While more than 90 percent of ...

Evaluation is a big and controversial word. Articles appear regularly about performance evaluations and the large sums of money spent on them. The evaluations of these evaluation processes are mostly ...