A major focus of K-12 education reform should be placing a highly effective teacher in every classroom...

Using video recordings to evaluate teachers...Teachers may scream about infringements on their “professionalism,” but effective teachers will have little to fear...

it was a pleasant surprise to read the latest consensus document from the Brookings Institution on “the important role of value added” when assessing teacher performance...

The major task that faces Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines and [New York City School System Chancellor Joel Klein's] designated successor, is to move relentlessly on that issue in an effort to obtain greater level of flexibility in the hiring, firing and promoting of teachers...