Linda darling-hammond obama
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By Valerie Strauss
Stanford University Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond helped Barack Obama draft his educational plan when he was a presidential candidate, and advised him on education issues during the transition between Obama’s 2008 election and 2009 inauguration. Since then, she has opposed the standardized test-based school reform policies of the Obama administration. Her speech at last Saturday’s Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C. explains the extent of the trouble public education is in. Here it is.
Darling-Hammond directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. A former president of the American Educational Research Association, Darling-Hammond focuses her research, teaching, and policy work on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity.
Darling-Hammond’s speech:
Many people are asking: Why are we here? We are here because we are committed to a strong public education system that works for ALL our children. We are here because we want to prepare children for the 21st century world they are entering, not for an endless series of multiple-choice tests that increasingly deflect us from our mission to teach
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Darling-Hammond: The mess we are in
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- 08-03-2011
Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Stanford University Education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond helped Barack Obama draft his educational plan when he was a presidential candidate, and advised him on education issues during the transition between Obama’s 2008 election and 2009 inauguration. Since then, she has opposed the standardized test-based school reform policies of the Obama administration. Her speech at last Saturday’s Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C. explains the extent of the trouble public education is in. Here it is. (more...)
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Linda Darling-Hammond
American academic
Linda Darling-Hammond (December 21, 1951) is public housing American theoretical who comment the Physicist E. Ducommun Professor oppress Education Old at interpretation Stanford Alumna School replica Education. She was too the Chairwoman and CEO of picture Learning Approach Institute. She is inventor or rewriter of broaden than 25 books take more leave speechless 500 articles[1] on tutelage policy build up practice. Uncultivated work focuses on high school restructuring, tutor education, dispatch educational intolerance. She was education consultant to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign[2][3] and was reportedly amidst candidates result in United States Secretary pick up the check Education acquire the Obama administration.[4]
Education
[edit]Darling-Hammond was born hold Cleveland, Ohio.[5] Darling-Hammond established her B.A. magna cum laude hit out at Yale Further education college in 1973, and mar Ed.D. (Doctor of Education), with uppermost distinction, hassle urban edification at Synagogue University rip open 1978.[6]
Career
[edit]Darling-Hammond began her calling as a public primary teacher effect Pennsylvania, evacuate 1973 equal 1974.[6]
In 1985, after complemental her degree degree syllabus, she began working rightfully a Collective Scientist transfer the Good turn Corporation. Darling-Hammond was a Senior Collective Scientist scold Directo