Teacher Quality

The latest news about teacher quality, including articles, Commentaries, and special features.

Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching

Linda Darling-Hammond says new teacher-evaluation methods are needed, but judging teachers based on student test scores does more harm than good. (March 5, 2012)

Spotlight on Teacher Evaluation

Assessing teacher performance is a complicated issue and this Spotlight examines ways to assess teaching and efforts to improve teacher evaluation.

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Teacher Beat Blog

07/31 05:05 pm | Walton Expands TFA Grants With $20M More | The Walton Foundation re-ups its support for Teach For America.

Teaching Now Blog

08/01 02:34 pm | Poll: Teacher Engagement Starts Low, Worsens With Time | K-12 teachers in the U.S. tend to become less engaged in their work after their first year, according to a new Gallup poll.

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Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness
In this webinar, our guests discussed the impact of, and best strategies for, enhancing teacher effectiveness.

Special Collection

Quality Counts 2008

This report includes a number of new indicators that look at incentives to attract and keep people in the teaching profession, among other things.

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The passing score on licensing tests is lower in every state than the mean score of the pool of aspiring teachers taking the tests.
May 14, 2013 - Education Week
States look to raise the entry bar on teaching programs, but worry about the prospects for black and Latino candidates.
May 7, 2013 - Education Week
May 7, 2013 - Education Week
Current efforts to improve the evaluation process will prove futile without input from classroom teachers, write Ross Wiener and Kasia Lundy.
April 29, 2013 - Education Week
Can evaluation rubrics capture the qualities that make some teachers extraordinary, asks Lorraine Bellon Cella.
April 16, 2013 - Education Week
Teachers represented in the lawsuit against the state education department argue that they are being graded against subjects and students they don't teach.
April 16, 2013 | Updated: May 7, 2013 - Education Week
April 12, 2013 - Education Week
Retired teacher Laurie Barnoski offers suggestions for how school administrators can support teachers at a time when the education landscape is changing.
April 2, 2013 - Education Week
Schools must look beyond salary to the benefits and working conditions they offer when looking to hire and retain teachers, Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles write.
March 26, 2013 - Education Week
The Match Teacher Residency is one of a small number of programs that train aspiring teachers for the classroom through practice.
March 25, 2013 - Education Week

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