The Star had a worthwhile idea for an education story. Two writers decided to look at how districts in the Tucson area handle teacher evaluations. The interactive map on the website and the chart in ...

Plans to tie public school teacher evaluations to student performance on state standardized tests will likely be delayed at least another year as the State Education Department continues to mull over ...

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 room full of high school students was answering questions on an excerpt from Stephen Hawking's "The (Elusive) Theory of Everything." The result of the exam could significantly affect their academic ...

The South Dakota Education Department hopes to once again ask lawmakers to remove a specific student learning requirement from the state’s teacher evaluation rules. The legislative committee ...

When Georgia first won its $400 million Race to the Top grant and we learned in detail what the state promised to reform in four short years, I was astounded. The long list of reforms did not seem ...

District teachers will be evaluated on their individual effectiveness and their school's overall success in improving student performance under an assessment system to be unveiled this fall, Schools ...

Following the secondary school teacher’s strike over the teacher evaluation plans, which ended at 11am, only five per cent of students showed up at school, deputy director of secondary education ...

The Chicago Teachers Union claims that Chicago Public Schools’ lack of Black teachers is, in part, the result of an evaluation system that discriminates against them — specifically singling out ...

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 ...

When Linda Arnold came to Virginia Tech in 1982, she was told of a professor in the history department who turned in his student evaluations, as expected, at the end of the semester. Weeks later, he ...