These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Teaching is the hardest job on the planet. It requires deep content knowledge, an understanding of how kids learn, a skill in connecting to students as human beings, and patience for the often inane ...

Ed. note: Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery ...

New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can ...

Having teachers create their own tests is one way to counter the backlash to “overtesting” and give teachers better data to improve instruction. Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide ...

Marcus Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he has done several studies on education testing and school report cards. Updated July 23, 2012, 9:41 AM As a statistical tool, ...

Teacher candidates in Austin Peay State University's Eriksson College of Education achieved the highest first-time pass rate among Tennessee educator preparation providers (EPPs) on the Tennessee ...

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Last week I promised to begin exploring current schooling issues from the perspective of our instructional time principle (i.e. the only method by which school learning can be increased is by ...

When it meets Thursday, Idaho’s State Board of Education will discuss next steps after an audit showed 99 percent of teacher assessments from the 2014-15 school year were incomplete, late or done ...