Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education

This post was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun P rofessor of Education at Stanford University, where she was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. She now directs the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. 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.

By Linda Darling-Hammond
The first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in New York City, showed perhaps more clearly than ever that the United States has been pursuing an approach to teaching almost diametrically