Pick any high-priority instructional initiative in your district. Can you think of at least one teacher who is excelling in that priority area? Maybe it’s an early-elementary teacher facilitating ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

From decades of research, we know what effective teacher development looks like. For instance, in 2017 the Learning Policy Institute published a review of nearly three dozen studies on teacher ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

CAP President and CEO John Podesta testifies to the House Education and Labor Committee on how to improve education by boosting teacher quality. Chairman Miller and members of the Committee, thank you ...

Researchers reexamined the Talent Transfer Initiative, finding that top-rated teachers’ value-added scores fell when they ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more-rigorous teacher preparation, has named Heather Peske as its new president. Peske will take over the helm ...

Teachers across Michigan’s K-12 schools are almost universally considered effective in annual evaluations reported to the state, according to the latest data. However, that effectiveness rating may ...

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Parents and teachers work together to support a student's growth and education. (Green Shoot Media photo) With a child’s future hanging in the balance, the people in their life need to be able to ...