Includes updates and/or revisions. The statistician who pioneered the use of “value added” research techniques for documenting students’ year-to-year academic progress is disputing a critique of his ...

The Houston Independent School District is no longer allowed to use what a court deemed, an unfair teacher evaluation system to terminate educators. The Education Value-Added Assessment System or ...

A boom resonated a few days ago from the Houston area stemming from the felling of the much-flawed EVAAS, the state’s system of teacher evaluation. Judge Stephen Smith of the Texas Southern District ...

HOUSTON – The Houston Independent School District is facing a lawsuit over the method it uses to evaluate teachers. At issue is the district's use of the Educational Value Added Assessment System, or ...

As a high school English teacher, it’s heartening to think I can “add value” to all of my students. Unfortunately, this is completely unrealistic. I can prepare engaging lessons that appeal to ...

It is Teacher Appreciation Week, and the tool that the Houston Independent School District school board had hoped would keep its best teachers in the classroom is actually sending great teachers ...

This is a period of unrivaled education reform. Charter schools, teacher merit pay, diversity policies - all efforts to improve what many see as a failing public school system. But every effort needs ...

I started working for the Houston Independent School District in 2005. Teaching was not my first career, but almost instantly, I knew I had found the job I would do for the rest of my life. The best ...

Next month, a million or so North Carolina public-school students between third and twelfth grade will start taking tests. Lots of them. Reading and math tests for the younger kids; biology, Algebra, ...