When Lisa Marie Lewis hears from former students who tell her they plan to become teachers, she cringes. She said she’s proud to be a teacher, but she fears her protégés have a tough road ahead. “I’m ...

A hostile winter of speeches, rallies and barbs between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and teachers' unions has ended in compromise on a variety of fronts, with the governor winning some changes in the way ...

Re “Controversial Website Lets Students Grade Teachers,” Jan. 7: What a great idea to have the students, who are the consumers of the services that teachers deliver, evaluate the teachers. There is ...

A first and partial glimpse of Chicago’s new evaluation system for public school teachers indicates fewer of them are considered “excellent,” but the shift in numbers is not as dramatic as once ...

Almost all of Florida’s public school teachers earned good evaluations last school year, but the percentage rated “highly effective” dropped statewide and fell sharply in Orange County. That will ...

Most people assume teachers are held accountable for student learning — seems obvious considering why we have teachers in the first place. In fact, until last year, five states had laws explicitly ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality has changed the rating it gave Samford University’s teacher-education program in a scathing study of the content of required reading courses for the nation’s ...

Public school principals opposed to New York's teacher evaluation system are contributing to buy full-page ads in an Albany publication asking lawmakers to reconsider the plan, according to Long ...