The past two decades have been rough times for the two big teachers’ unions. Republicans have demonized them. The Obama administration courted their support but...
Audrey Amrein Beardsley writes here about Houston’s experience with value-added evaluation of its teachers. The Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with William Sanders’...
Madeline Will wrote in Education Week that many states plan to resume teacher evaluations, despite the pandemic and the difficulties of teaching remotely and/or in-person....
Rebekah Ray responded to another Florida teacher who complained the changes by the State Legislature has destroyed the promises made to him when he became...
A decade ago, Richard Phelps was assessment director of the District of Columbia Public Schools. His time in that position coincided with the last ten...
The Wall Street Journal, which has a teacher-bashing, union-hating pro-privatization editorial board, published an editorial warning about the dangers of policing the police. The editorial...
Please read the NPE Action endorsement of Joe Biden for President. We support public schools. Donald Trump and his Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, are...
The National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH), formerly known as the Education Research Alliance, released its first report after having been...
Thomas Good sent me this research paper about teacher evaluation that he wrote with Alyson Lavigne. Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association...