Teacher evaluations—both their role and the mechanics of carrying them out—are a politically fraught subject, and the Every Student Succeeds Act has kicked the dust up once again as states wrestle ...

How can we measure teacher effectiveness? The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) recently released their report, Student Learning, Student Achievement: How Do Teachers Measure ...

An effort to define in law who a Tennessee teacher is has been revived by state Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, and state Rep. Mike Carter, R-Ooltewah. The legislators offered the same bill a ...

At the start of the 2017-2018 school year, I stepped into a classroom at Fishers High School to teach, and it was the most terrifying, thrilling and eye-opening experience I’d had in a long time. I ...