A new research paper has found little connection between teaching quality and improvement of standardized test scores. At issue is the idea of value-added measures (VAM), evaluating teachers by seeing how much students improve on standardized test scores and using deviations in expected improvements to rate teachersDistricts highly rate teachersRead More

According to a recent study from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), while pockets of adult populations across the world exhibit limited facility with literacy, numeracy, and ICT-based problem solving, American adults, on average, universally rank lower than their peers across all three categories.  A series of testsRead More