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Direct linkPowers, Jeanne M.; Chapman, Kathryn P. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: In the past decade, the laws governing teachers' employment have been at the center of legal and political conflicts across the United States. Vergara v. California challenged five California state statutes that provide employment protections for teachers. In June 2014, a California lower court declared the statutes unconstitutional…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, State Legislation, Teacher Dismissal, Teacher Effectiveness
Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Hall, Stephanie M. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Charter schools are commonly discussed as being more effective at matching student and family interests with school mission, ensuring family choice of educational products and improving education quality and the efficiency of resource use as a result of the competitive dynamics they are assumed to generate between themselves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Educational Strategies, Qualitative Research
Lavigne, Alyson Leah – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: The stakes are getting higher for teachers daily as more and more states adopt hiring, firing, and tenure-granting policies based on teacher evaluations. Even more concerning is the limited discussion about whether or not high-stakes teacher evaluation can meet the intended outcome of improved student achievement, and at what…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Student Improvement, Academic Achievement, Teacher Dismissal
Cowen, Joshua M.; Fowles, Jacob – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: Recent political efforts to minimize the influence of teacher unions have called new attention to collective bargaining in American education. Such attention has only heightened a longstanding controversy within the realms of both research and practice. A renewed scholarly literature has systematically considered the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Unions, Contracts, Educational History
Yeh, Stuart S. – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: In principle, value-added modeling (VAM) might be justified if it can be shown to be a more reliable indicator of teacher quality than existing indicators for existing low-stakes decisions that are already being made, such as the award of small merit bonuses. However, a growing number of researchers now advocate the use of VAM to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Placement, Teacher Dismissal
Goldstein, Jennifer – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Peer Assistance and Review (PAR), or peer review as it has historically been called, has existed in a handful of school districts since the early 1980s. In 1999, California became the first state to pass PAR legislation; at that time, a major district had not implemented the policy in over a decade. Setting: This is an in-depth…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Teacher Evaluation, Program Implementation, Accountability
