Sentences with phrase «teacher performance ratings»

Among other achievements, he said he helped stop district efforts to use teacher performance ratings in evaluations and protected thousands of jobs from elimination last year.

Emerging systems for teacher evaluation prioritize direct observation of teacher actions and serve as a major basis for teacher performance ratings.

We revisit these findings by compiling teacher performance ratings across 24 states that adopted major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems.

Another interesting finding from this study, discussed before but that has not yet reached the point of saturation in the research literature like the prior two is how (3) different teacher performance ratings as based on observational data are also markedly different across schools.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

She also said union members should be more active in lobbying the state Legislature for such changes as keeping teacher performance ratings confidential — an L.A. Superior Court judge ruled last week that those ratings should be released to The Times.

Although the rules do not require tests, 42 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have agreed with the Department of Education to develop teacher performance ratings that include test scores.

In one of the first rulings in the nation on the public's right to access information about the effectiveness of public school teachers, a judge in Los Angeles upheld that teacher performance ratings are...

In one of the first rulings in the nation on the public's right to access information about the effectiveness of public school teachers, a judge in Los Angeles upheld that teacher performance ratings are a matter of «keen public interest» and should be released.