Includes updates and/or revisions. As value-added research designs gain in popularity and undergo increasing scrutiny, experts are beginning to wave cautionary flags about how best to make use of them ...

This is the second in a Times series examining the effectiveness of teachers and schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District using a statistical analysis of students’ California Standards Test ...

Los Angeles Unified’s board of education voted today to overhaul what people within and outside the district say is an ineffective teacher evaluation system. The board wants the overhaul to include ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The controversial new method of evaluating teachers and schools - called "value-added" - does not appear to affect property values, finds research by economists at Michigan ...