Welcome to On Performance. The purpose of this blog is to discuss issues of performance in public education, from teacher evaluation to principal accountability to the changing shape of ...

Students need a “high-quality” teacher base to succeed, she said. In addition to enhancing teacher performance, the state must focus on the overall performance of schools, Gist said. The state’s ...

Briefly, then, I would argue that economic incentives can change both the composition of the education workforce—who enters and chooses to remain in teaching—and the performance of educators.

A set of recommendations for how Michigan teachers should be evaluated are sparking debate after they were released Wednesday morning to the public. (MLive file photo) LANSING -- A report from the ...

Instead, it would require school systems to fold the scores into a separate system of judging educator performance: the annual job review, a process that has been based largely on observations ...

Even those tasked with setting up the Nevada Educator Performance Framework acknowledge those numbers are reflective of the true needs and performance of the state's teachers. With the Teachers ...

The teachers' union had sued the district, temporarily blocking a controversial performance evaluation system for educators — a key pillar of the sweeping reforms from state-appointed ...

Sadler reviewed this year’s results of the Nevada Educator Performance Framework Tuesday in an annual presentation to the Board of Trustees. Nevada Revised Statute 391.485 requires local education ...