CAP experts discuss the need for holistic and comprehensive teacher evaluation systems so students don’t lose out. For more of this event, click here. The United States is currently failing many of ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

Colleges and universities all over the United States are striding through the fall term. Some are already at midterms, six weeks in. Others have just started within the last week. Millions of students ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Washington, D.C. — A report released today by Center for American Progress studied how state departments of education have implemented new teacher evaluation systems. The report found that many states ...

Michigan will change the way its public schools evaluate teachers, under a pair of bills signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this week. Senate Bills 395 and 396 reduce the weight of student ...

"That was the best class ever!" "She is the best professor on campus." "That class made waking up at noon worth it." These are the kinds of student comments that professors (and probably their parents ...

Nine in 10 Pima County teachers are rated good or great — but that is not always evident in their students’ achievement scores. An Arizona Daily Star analysis of teacher evaluations and school ...

Most teachers across Michigan’s K-12 schools are almost universally considered effective in annual evaluations reported to the state, according to the latest data. However, that effectiveness rating ...

Two new initiatives are evaluating preschool curricula, making the case that programs designed to teach the youngest learners ...