Using administrative data from DC Public Schools, I use exogenous variation in the
presence and intensity of teacher monitoring to show it significantly improves student test …

Teacher evaluation systems that use in-class observations, particularly in high-stakes
settings, are frequently understood as accountability systems intended as nonintrusive …

most of the action and nearly all the opportunities for improving teacher evaluations lie in the
area of classroom observations rather than in test-score gains. Because of the immaturity of …

Teacher evaluation has emerged as a potentially powerful policy lever in state and federal
debates about how to improve public education. The role of student test scores and" value …

As the rubber hits the road in the implementation of states' revamped teacher-evaluation
systems, new research illuminates a troubling source of bias. School principals—when …

Like many policymakers across the globe, Tennessee policymakers have adopted
theoretically substantial teacher evaluation reforms since the early 2010s. Although …

The effects of imposing accountability pressures on public school teachers are empirically
indeterminate. In this paper, we study the effects of accountability in the context of teacher …

There is a growing consensus that teacher evaluation in the United States is fundamentally
broken. Few would argue that a system that tells 98 percent of teachers they are" …

The idea that teaching practices could be improved through better data systems has
captured the imagination of policy makers, researchers and foundations. However, the …

A large literature finds substantial variation in teachers' effects on student achievement.
Moreover, this research finds that little of this variation in effectiveness can be explained by …