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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Darling-Hammond's commencement speech at Columbia Teachers College

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Darling-Hammond's commencement speech at Columbia Teachers College

Darling-Hammond's commencement speech at Columbia Teachers College

I'm reprinting this speech by Linda Darling-Hammond in full because -- well read it and you will know why. -- M.K.




The Service of Democratic Education

Linda Darling-Hammond | May 21, 2011

At the commencement ceremony for Columbia University's Teachers College on May 18, Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond—a nationally renowned leader in education reform and former education adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign—was awarded the Teachers College medal for distinguished service. Professor Darling-Hammond marked the occasion by delivering the following address:

I could not be more honored than to be awarded this recognition from Teachers College, one of the places of all