This report from advocacy group TNTP documents uniformly high teacher-evaluation results and a very low number of teachers being dismissed for performance in the 12 districts studied. ( View an ...

Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems. Jennifer Steele, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Stecher argue that policymakers should take particular measurement ...

While teacher evaluations remain a controversial topic in education reform, the Achievement First charter school in Bridgeport, Conn. uses a model of consistent evaluation, feedback and other ...

The system is also expensive: The amount of bonus money paid out to teachers has steadily increased as evaluation scores have improved, jumping from $3.2 million in 2009-10 to $8.1 million last ...

HISD Houston ISD teachers’ union granted temporary restraining order in lawsuit over new performance evaluation criteria. The lawsuit, filed against state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles and ...

Houston ISD's Board of Managers greenlit a new teacher evaluation system Thursday ahead of the district's expected upcoming shift to pay for performance. Trista Bishop-Watt, from Houstonians for ...

Melinda Person, president of New York State United Teachers, said the new method will fix an onerous process of evaluating a teacher's performance, 14 years after the system was enacted.

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