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 ...

EdVoice and 12 other education advocacy organizations have submitted a letter to the California Legislature opposing Senate Bill 1263, which would eliminate teaching performance assessments. Teaching ...

There’s always a lot of interest among Education Week readers in the topic of “formative assessment.” And despite some confusion over the research, there is at least general recognition that this ...

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 ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students A bill wending its way through the California State Legislature could remove a valuable tool to ...

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Washington, DC–Though many agree the key to improving public education is placing highly effective teachers in classrooms, the nation lacks a practical set of standards to determine that new teachers ...

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The way that teachers assess students has been under scrutiny since the UK government announced that this would be one element of a range of evidence used to replace GCSE and A Level exams this year.