JFAC has voted 19-0 in favor of a budget for the office of the State Board of Education for next year that includes $1 million to create a template for teacher evaluations and provide training on ...

Under the present teacher evaluation system in New York, known as APPR (Annual Professional Performance Review), she is not in danger of losing her job. She was rated effective overall due to ...

While some teachers praise the evaluation system for pinpointing their weaknesses and helping them improve, others complain that the evaluators and instructional coaches are too rushed to spend ...

Observations of teachers—usually the most prominent component of teacher-evaluation systems—can carry significant sources of bias, potentially penalizing English/language arts teachers of ...

EdWeek captures a certain attitude about the approach with its headline calling the programs “efforts to toughen teacher evaluation,” because part of the guiding theory was that teachers had ...

Teachers union leaders have responded cautiously to evaluation plans, rising concerned about using test scores, arguing that results can be linked to outside of school factors. National Education ...

Andrew M. Cuomo, the state Education Department and the unions in February announced agreement on a teacher-evaluation template for school districts statewide. Cuomo has said that any district ...

which is alarming many working parents who must figure out day care. That provision wouldn’t start until fall 2011 at the earliest. Teachers who signed up for the new evaluation would get a 1 ...

"It is reasonable that if anyone has access to our evaluation results, it would be the parents of the students we are working with," said Stuart Napear, a Freeport High School math teacher and ...