Chad Aldemanafter teachers had a couple years experience and were up for lifetime tenure, could a district accurately cut off the bottom 25 percent of teachers and improve their workforce?
The answer is a qualified yes.
Tom DeansI've been considering such evaluations ever since I went through the tenure a second time: the first was at a liberal arts college, the second two years later when I moved to a research university. Both institutions valued teaching but took markedly different approaches to student course evaluations. The research university relied almost exclusively on the summary scores of bubble-sheet course evaluations, while the liberal arts college didn't even allow candidates to include end-of-semester forms in tenure files. Instead they contacted former students, including alumni, and asked them to write letters…
Daniela Werner channels my inner thoughts.
Self-loathing kicks in, and I mentally whack myself over the head…
Like most of my fellow Web users, I exercise little self-control when spending time on the Internet. What I don't know is how I'm going to change…
It's embarrassing to admit that I willingly give up free time that I could spend accomplishing something of academic or personal value…
David MoltzAmid the enrollment boom at community colleges, two-year honors programs have become more popular…
“More and more of our students in the program are coming here because they can’t afford to go off elsewhere,” Britt said…
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