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Hazi, Helen M. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2017
As teacher quality is judged and tenured teachers are rated ineffective, educators are challenging teacher evaluation systems in the courts as they adversely affect their employment. Teachers have lost jobs, pay, tenure, and career advancement. This article reports on these cases, providing an interpretation in light of court cases about teacher…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Court Litigation, Teacher Effectiveness
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Nixon, Andy; Packard, Abbot; Dam, Margaret – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2016
This quantitative study investigated the relationship between teacher dispositions, subject content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and reasons that school principals recommend non-renewal of teachers' contracts. Nearly 2,000 school principals in 13 states completed an emailed survey. In deciding whether to non-renew a teacher contract,…
Descriptors: Teacher Dismissal, Contracts, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Lemke, Mariann; Thomsen, Kerri; Wayne, Andrew; Birman, Beatrice – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2012
One of the most important things school systems can do to promote student achievement is to ensure that all students have effective teachers. Effective teachers may be particularly important for the most disadvantaged students. The U.S. Department of Education commissioned the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to create this report as a…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, School Districts, Public School Teachers, Identification