The Law of Teacher Evaluation, 2d ed.

• Author: Wood, R. Craig
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

by Lawrence F. Rossow and James O. Tate

The second edition of The Law of Teacher Evaluation, written by Lawrence F. Rossow and James O. Tate, provides an exhaustive guide to the arena of teacher evaluation. Rossow and Tate provide a wealth of information and sources of benefit to school administrators, supervisors of instruction and other teacher evaluators, as well as attorneys. Their analysis is straightforward and to the point. The authors have captured the essence and the breadth of the issues involved in this most litigious area.

The monograph fully discusses a wide variety of issues with chapters regarding the content of evaluations, the role of evaluations in the termination process, the procedural aspects of evaluation, and the use of testing in the evaluation of teachers, as well as the issues of defamation during the process. Thus, the authors have essentially provided the student of...