The new Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson, has pledged to bring in a teaching excellence framework that creates incentives for universities to raise the quality of teaching. He ...

The No Child Left Behind Act is far from perfect, but it has had a positive impact on our schools. As Congress prepares to reauthorize the law, it should not toss out the program, but fix what is ...

Many units on the CU Boulder campus have been working in partnership with the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Inititiative to better align their teaching evaluation practices with known scholarship ...

Greg Mankiw links to this article in the Journal of Polit Economy “Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors” (available here), following are some ...

Edward Crowe details a new system for holding teacher preparation programs accountable for their graduates' results in the classroom. Our current system for holding U.S. teacher education programs ...

Evaluating education quality across countries is complex and often inconsistent. A recent study introduces the Global Education Quality Index (GEQI), developed to offer a comprehensive and comparative ...

People often seem upset that many teachers are not interested in the measurement of teacher performance in public schools. If these people had experienced living in more advanced socialist or fascist ...

Edward Ayers is a great teacher. His students think so, and so do his colleagues. They call his lectures “spellbinding” and praise him for getting undergraduates excited about research. Even Mr. Ayers ...

Teach ECE holistically measures what happens in the ECE classroom. It does so by considering not just time spent on learning but, more importantly, the quality of ECE teaching practices. Teach ECE ...

Jenny Gore receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Paul Ramsay Foundation and NSW Department of Education. In his speech to The Age Schools Summit in Melbourne last week, federal ...