It is the third year that New Haven has evaluated teachers, in part, on goals they set for students in consultation with their principals. As Connecticut this year pilots a new teacher evaluation ...

Forty percent of Syracuse school district teachers have to draft improvement plans following the outcome of state performance evaluations, district officials revealed this week. A teacher's evaluation ...

In the mistaken belief that test scores are adequate reflections of learning, we have created vast systems to extract test score data, and now are requiring that this data be incorporated in teacher ...

Student teaching is a full-time program, requiring at least 13 weeks in a prek-12 classroom with a mentor teacher. A teacher candidate works five days each week in the classroom. During the first week ...

As the new school year gets under way, the state department of education is making some significant changes in the teacher evaluation process. The new evaluation system involves school districts ...

Louisiana lawmakers handed Gov. Bobby Jindal his first significant victory of the legislative session Thursday, giving final approval to a revamp of the state's teacher evaluation process that the ...