- January 31, 2012 • 5:30 am PST
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With so many ideas for education innovation and reform here at home, why should the United States pay attention to what school systems around the globe are doing? Veteran journalist Dan Rather recently posed that question to Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert in school redesign and teacher quality who was President Obama’s education adviser for his first presidential campaign.
Like other education experts, Darling-Hammond notes that nations likeFinland and Singapore have dramatically improved their education systems in the last four decades while the U.S. has "been pedaling in
