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Teacher Effectiveness

Teacher effectiveness has more influence on student achievement than any other in-school factor. Since 2010, at least 35 states have revamped teacher evaluation policies to include student performance despite educators’ protests. The Hechinger Report has traveled the country to learn what the controversial changes mean for the classroom.

Bass-Hoover Elementary School teacher Jessica DeMarco, standing left, assists some of her students in readying their tablets for a reading assignment in Stephens City, Va., on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Opinion, Teacher Effectiveness

Tablets and other tech offer ways to track teacher performance beyond just standardized tests

Avatar photo by Michael Nagler August 11, 2015April 8, 2021
Panelists discuss a new report by The New Teacher Project, which found that professional development is largely ineffective.
Posted inElementary to High School, News, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching the Teachers

New report reveals that teacher professional development is costly and ineffective

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader August 4, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, Teacher Effectiveness, The South

Hey STEM professor, you’re a teacher too

Avatar photo by Andre Perry July 28, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion, Teacher Effectiveness

Evaluating teachers: Precise but irrelevant metrics?

Avatar photo by Aaron Pallas July 24, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inCalifornia, Columnists, Education by the Numbers, Elementary to High School, High School Reform, Jill Barshay, Teacher Effectiveness, The West

Study calculates low-income, minority students get the worst teachers in Washington State

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay July 13, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, News, Teacher Effectiveness

New York teachers hate the idea of outsiders evaluating them. Here’s what happened when D.C. tried it

Avatar photo by Alexandria Neason and Meredith Kolodner April 9, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inBlogs, Education by the Numbers, Elementary to High School, Teacher Effectiveness

Researchers give failing marks to national effort to measure good teaching

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay May 13, 2014March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion, Teacher Effectiveness

Investing in the teaching profession

by Ronald Thorpe October 10, 2013March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, News, Special Reports, Teacher Effectiveness

Indiana ponders new measuring stick for student teachers

by Stephanie Wang July 3, 2013March 30, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, News, Special Reports, Teacher Effectiveness

Indiana universities rethink student teaching

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz July 2, 2013March 30, 2020

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