Research has overwhelming shown that student evaluations of faculty (SEFs) are a reliable tool that can be used to measure teaching effectiveness. Texas universities should increase the value they place on SEF results by awarding bonuses to professors who excel in the classroom.
Kudos, Tarrant County
Fiscal conservatism is alive-and-well in Texas’ 3rd largest county. As evidence, consider that Tarrant County officials last year approved a tax rate below the no-new-revenue (NNR) tax rate, resulting in an astonishing “13.17 percent” rate reduction. As impressive as that was though, county leaders took things one step further by creating a 10% local option...