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Q&A: Teachers need to have more of a say | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register


Q&A: Teachers need to have more of a say DesMoinesRegister.com The Des Moines Register:

"Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she started the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She is former president of the American Educational Research Association and was executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future from 1994 to 2001. Darling-Hammond began her career as a high school English teacher. She is the lead author of a February 2009 report, 'Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad,' Editorial-page Editor Linda Lantor Fandel interviewed her."