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"Test scores are an inadequate proxy for quality because too many factors outside of the teachers' control can influence student performance from year to year - or even from classroom to classroom during the same year. Often, more than half of those teachers identified as the poorest performers one year will be judged average or above average the next, and the results are almost as bad for teachers with multiple classes during the same year. Fortunately, there's a far more direct approach: measuring the amount of time a teacher spends delivering relevant instruction - in other words, how much teaching a teacher actually gets done in a school day. "

"NASHVILLE -- The state Senate voted 18-14 Monday night to end 33 years of collective bargaining by teachers in Tennessee."

Sweeney will not allow votes on overhaul of teacher merit pay and voiding seniority.

After nearly two decades of magic on the tennis court, Andre Agassi is ready to tackle his next big challenge: giving large numbers of underprivileged children a chance to succeed through charter schools.

As the majority of legislative sessions around the country come to a close, many states will finish the season having pushed through policy changes that are likely to have a notable impact on teachers.

Teachers, students and parents-one after the other - implored the Fond du Lac Board of Education to consider the impact of enacting a schedule change that would result in less contact time between staff and students before and after school.

Matthew Stewart believes there is a place for charter schools. Just not in his schoolyard.

For the second year in a row, a disproportionate number of "highly effective" teachers are employed in affluent, white areas of the District, school officials confirmed.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, prodded by the Washington Teachers' Union, has relaxed teacher evaluation rules so that some veterans who receive two consecutive poor appraisals can keep their jobs.