Teacher Performance

Minn. Senate Passes Bill To Let Schools Fire Teachers Based On Performance

AP | By ALEXANDRA TEMPUS | Posted 02.27.2012

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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Senate passed a bill Monday that would let schools lay off teachers based on their performance in the classroom rathe...

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Duncan To Announce Teacher Contest Focused On Quality

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Teacher Quality, Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Barack Obama, Teacher Training, Race to the Top, Teacher Pay, Arne Duncan, Teacher Contest, Obama Administration, Teacher Salary, Teachers, Teacher Competition, Teacher Performance, Education News

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday spelled out details of a proposed new $5 billion Race to the Top-style competition foc...

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Tenure Rights Weaken As States Look To Fire Teachers Who Aren't Performing

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Idaho Schools, American Federation of Teachers, National Council on Teacher Quality, No Child Left Behind, Florida Education Association, President Barack Obama, Tenure, Race to the Top, Underperforming Teachers, Teacher Pay, Lane Brown, Barack Obama, Tenure Rights, Teacher Quality, Teacher Tenure, Teacher Tenure Rights, Education, Teacher Tenure Rights Weakening, National Center for Education Statistics, Teachers, Tom Luna, Teacher Performance, Education News

WASHINGTON — America's public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as states seek flexibility to fire te...

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Does Publicly Naming Teachers Tied To Student Test Scores Undermine Reform?

Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: New York Teachers, Video, Teacher Evaluations, Value Added Teachers, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, New York Schools, Teachers, Education Reform, Los Angeles Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Value-Added, Teacher Performance, Education News

In a departure from recent efforts to publicly name teachers tied to the performance -- and projected performance -- of their students, a new report s...

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John Celock

Governors Group Steps Into Teacher Evaluation Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: State-Education-Policy, Teacher Evaluations, No Child Left Behind, State and Local Government, National Governors Association, Guam, Nevada, Teachers, Governors Education Policy, Colorado, North Carolina, Teacher Performance, Education News

WASHINGTON -- The nation's governors on Thursday announced plans to work with three states and one territory on developing new teacher evaluation guid...

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Is Government Mandated Taping Of Teacher Performance A Solution For Evaluations?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Teachers, Teacher Performance, Poll, Wyoming Legislature May Put Cameras in Classrooms, Education News

From the release of 12,000 teacher scores in New York, to California's educational overhaul that hopes to see payoff by 2025, schools are scrambling t...

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