Teacher evaluations—both their role and the mechanics of carrying them out—are a politically fraught subject, and the Every Student Succeeds Act has kicked the dust up once again as states wrestle ...

How can we measure teacher effectiveness? The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) recently released their report, Student Learning, Student Achievement: How Do Teachers Measure ...

Just what does a teacher do at school? And just what can a teacher do at home? Catholic educators in dioceses across the country are facing those fundamental questions as they decide this spring ...

If you assume a group of teachers, shut in together to grade exams from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., would be living their own definition of hell, you haven’t ever been to an Advanced Placement Exam Reading.

Teacher (te'cher), n. A person who teaches or instructs as a profession - and who adapts to and integrates advancements in technology and applies those learning opportunities to the classroom, who ...

A new Colorado law builds on previous attempts to evaluate teachers, setting six standards for measuring teacher effectiveness and making tenure contingent on continued “effective” ratings. Lt. Gov.

Senator Todd Gardenhire said Thursday at a breakfast meeting with county officials that he wants to strictly define what a “teacher” is. And Rep. Mike Carter said, the school board allegedly used ...

West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously reversed Wednesday a ruling that favored state education unions, in a case stretching back to 2011 and dealing with whom is defined as a "teacher." The high ...

Even after years of debate and litigation over teacher evaluations and tenure, California had no official definition of what constituted a bad educator — until now. Under the federal Every Student ...