Publications: Teacher Evaluation

Let’s Stop Asking Whether Teachers Are Professionals. Let’s Ask What Kinds of Professionals We Want Teachers to Be

Policy Brief

Emilie Mitescu Reagan and A. Lin Goodwin

March 11, 2025

NEPC Review: Making a Difference: Six Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems Are Getting Results (National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2018)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley and Leah Chamberlain

December 4, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 State Teacher Policy Best Practices Guide (National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

May 24, 2018

NEPC Review: Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impact of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Institute of Education Sciences, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

February 27, 2018

NEPC Review: Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

November 7, 2017

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Alyssa Hadley Dunn on Viral Teacher Resignation Letters

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Alyssa Hadley Dunn

October 17, 2017

NEPC Review: For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era (Bellwether Education Partners, December 2016)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley

February 22, 2017

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

NEPC Review: Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession (Center for American Progress, November 2015)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth J. Meyer

January 7, 2016

NEPC Review: The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development (TNTP, August 2015)

NEPC Review

Heather C. Hill

September 30, 2015

Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’s Backers May Lose by Winning

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 3, 2015

NEPC Review: Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students (Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, February 2015)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

April 13, 2015

Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Kevin K. Kumashiro

January 12, 2015

Review of Measuring the Impacts of Teachers

NEPC Review

Moshe Adler

April 10, 2014

Review of A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

February 27, 2014

Review of Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching

NEPC Review

Jennie Whitcomb

January 21, 2014

Review of An Opportunity Culture for All: Making Teaching a Highly Paid, High-Impact Profession

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 12, 2013

School Self-Evaluation and Inspection for Improving U.S. Schools?

Policy Brief

Katherine E. Ryan, Tysza Gandha, and Jeehae Ahn

November 12, 2013

Data-Driven Improvement and Accountability

Legislative Brief

Andy Hargreaves, Henry Braun, and Kathleen Gebhardt

October 22, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller and Nathan Dadey

April 9, 2013

NEPC Review: The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools, Part II (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, February 2013)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

March 26, 2013

NEPC Review: Have We Identified Effective Teachers? (Gates Foundation, January 2013)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein and William J. Mathis

January 31, 2013

Review of The School Staffing Surge

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

December 4, 2012

Review of Asking Students About Teaching

NEPC Review

Eric M. Camburn

November 15, 2012

Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research

Policy Brief

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 7, 2010

Teacher Data in Colorado: Considering Potential Opportunities and Risks of Recent Proposals

Legacy Publication

Vincent J.A. Badolato

July 1, 2007

Reform Florida

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, and Victoria-Maria MacDonald

January 1, 2004

Congress, Teachers, and the Perils of Merit Pay

Policy Brief

Catherine A. Lugg

January 1, 2001

The Texas Teacher Test

Resource Document

A. Kreitzer

January 1, 1987