New program lets educators review tape of themselves and learn to do better — just like professional athletes.

The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future indicates that more than fifty percent of those entering the profession will leave within the first three to five years. Poor teacher ...

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Effective teaching requires teacher confidence. It impacts teachers' performance and students’ reactions and learning outcomes. However, as we expected, there are major differences between male and ...

Louisiana wants to give high-performing teachers more freedom and struggling teachers more support. Under a new teacher-evaluation system that schools have the option of piloting this year, teachers ...

The pitched battles that once waged over more-rigorous teacher evaluations have long since quieted, but there’s a lasting legacy of those systems: They have fundamentally changed the principal’s job.

Teacher evaluations matter a lot—both to teachers and to those holding them accountable. But how can schools measure the performance of all teachers fairly? And what should they do with the results?

According to Colorado legislators, the upcoming 2013-14 school year should be a watershed moment for the academic performance of our state’s students. They are betting that the implementation of ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

LAist relies on reader donations to power our non-profit newsroom. Support LAist by giving now. Not anymore. Last weekend, the rank-and-file of United Teachers Los Angeles overwhelmingly approved new ...