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 ...

After a landmark deal was struck in Albany to create a guide for evaluating the state’s 222,000 public school teachers, the effort turns to local districts where the theory will have to be put into ...

Making teacher evaluation count not just for measuring effectiveness, but also for the ongoing improvement of teaching and learning means paying attention to many details beyond simply selecting the ...

Deputy Minority Leader Antonio Tinio has urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to immediately review what he described as ...

ALBANY — State lawmakers could head home for the summer with no agreement to limit disclosure of teacher evaluations, Gov. Cuomo said yesterday. Talks stalled over the weekend and yesterday, which ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making a last-minute effort to enact a law this year to limit disclosure of teacher evaluations only to parents, not the public, in a bill he announced today.

Long Island's public schools are struggling to prepare for potentially the most sweeping national and state reforms in decades -- especially a job-evaluation system that for the first time will rate ...

Did your formal evaluation give meaningful feedback to improve your teaching and leadership? Unfortunately, many teachers do not find their formal evaluations very meaningful or reflective of what ...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday that a deal on limiting public access to teachers' evaluations only to parents appeared unlikely this legislative session. A deal on the governor's proposal to ...

If Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union can’t come up with their own teacher-evaluation plan, Albany will step in and do it for them, Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders warned yesterday. Cuomo ...

Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...