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 ...

A column from The New York Times takes aim at the Teacher Performance Assessment, a performance-based licensing test that about 200 teacher preparation programs across 25 states are now piloting. In ...

Wai Yee Amy Wong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid A bill wending its way through the California State Legislature could remove a valuable tool to evaluate ...

Minister for Education Norma Foley has shelved plans to introduce teacher-based assessment as part of a revised senior cycle programme, highlighting the advent of Artificial Intelligence technology ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets A controversial bill that would have eliminated teaching performance assessments — the last licensure test California ...

Teacher assessment of pupils is a better and more “accurate” way of awarding grades than formal exams, the government’s qualification regulator has said. Simon Lebus, the interim head of Ofqual, said ...