New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores
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Some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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Reaction has been pouring on an Education Department pilot program to rate city teachers based on how well they taught their students to do on standardized tests in a given year.
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Some schools are now using TV cameras to monitor teachers' classroom performance.
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A new position overseeing nothing but test scores and data has been created in the State Office of Education.  The new associate superintendent's job was awarded to state testing director Judy Park.
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Annual tables showing the test results of thousands of England's primary schools have been published.
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A new study on teacher stress shows students usually aren't the problem.
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The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't.  Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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Unreliable test scores and other shaky data may be causing states to wrongly penalize some schools under federal law, congressional investigators have found.
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Media & professional: University applicants will be judged on their schools as well as grades.
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The nation's fourth- and eighth-graders continue to improve steadily in mathematics, and fourth-grade reading achievement is on the rise, according to test scores released yesterday. Black and Hispanic students are also making broad gains, though significant achievement gaps persist.
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In every grade tested, New York City saw jumps, often in double-digits, in the proportion of students performing at grade level over the year before.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27  /PRNewswire/ -- Certiport today announced a survey of K-12 educators reveals a disparity between stated usage and validated training against accepted standards to leverage the Internet appropriately.
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U.S. eighth-grade students are improving in science and math compared with international peers, but the nation's fourth-graders have stagnant scores and are slipping behind in both subjects, according to a study of achievement across the globe.
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American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders&#39; scores were flat and all students
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Examiners are offering schools the chance to pick their own set texts, saying teachers should take inspiration from Richard and Judy's book club. By Polly Curtis
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The results of a new, comprehensive state testing system help explain the stateÂs low high school graduation rates.