CCSSO announces today four finalists for the 2013 National Teacher of the Year. The National Teacher of the Year spends a year representing educators across the country and advocating on behalf of the teaching profession.
(CCSSO) announces today four finalists for the 2013 National Teacher of the Year. The National Teacher of the Year spends a year representing educators across the country and advocating on behalf of the teaching profession.
A study found that effective teachers can boost the test scores of students who had struggled under low-performing instructors, marking a new salvo in the national debate over teacher performance. The three-year study by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published Tuesday, is the first large-scale research to show, using random student assignment, that some teachers can produce test-score gains regardless of the past performance of their students, according to foundation officials.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's issued an $187 million education reform proposal, and the centerpiece of the plan is the creation of new career paths for teachers, who could receive pay bumps for taking on extra duties.
The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project released today its third and final report: Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching Culminating Findings from the MET Project’s Three-Year Study.
The New Hampshire Department of Education (DOE) has created a teacher evaluation system that can be used as a model by school districts, which are required by state law to implement an evaluation policy but can craft it themselves.
New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf spoke with NJ Spotlight about education reform priorities for 2013, including teacher evaluation systems, turnaround strategies for troubled schools, and the introduction of new standards and assessments for students.
Under a bill signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in April, school boards must implement teacher and principal evaluation systems -- either those developed by the State Department of Public Instruction or equivalent systems -- by the 2014-15 school year.
New York State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr., has approved 533 school district teacher and principal Annual Professional Performance Review evaluation plans, which were submitted as required by the revised teacher and principal evaluation law passed in 2012.
About 67 percent of states are in the process of implementing teacher evaluations to improve public education, and many of those evaluations will include student achievement -- generally measured by standardized tests -- and classroom observation.
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