Publications
Building a Learning Community: A Tale of Two Schools
In the fourth part of SCOPE-Learning Forward's Status of Professional Development series, Dan Mindich and Ann Lieberman examine ways to implement effective PLCs.
Linked Learning in Pasadena: Creating a Collaborative Culture for Sustainable District Reform
This case study is one in a series giving an up-close look at how one California school district is implementing reform for equity and quality through the Linked Learning District Initiative.
Creating a Comprehensive System for Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching
This report by Linda Darling-Hammond proposes effective research-based systems to address teacher evaluation and development.
Developing and Assessing Teaching Effectiveness
This PowerPoint summarizes a report by Linda Darling-Hammond on effective research-based systems to address teacher evaluation and development.
Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools
In her new book, Prudence Carter looks to the U.S. and South Africa to examine why students of color are more successful at some schools than others.
"Prudence Carter's work is simultaneously scholarly and compassionate. It helps us see, in ... two benighted but globally important societies, how easily things break, but also how well, when structures are in place and when human agency takes flight, individuals and the groups to which they belong flourish and grow."
— Crain Soudien, Professor of Education, University of Cape Town
Linked Learning in Porterville: Creating Capacity for Innovation and Change through Collaborative Leadership and Community Engagement
This case study is one in a series giving an up-close look at how one California school district is implementing reform for equity and quality through the Linked Learning District Initiative.
Education Canada -- Theme Issue 2011
This online magazine by CEA and SCOPE features Linda Darling-Hammond, Prudence Carter, Ben Levin, Carol Lee, Carol Campbell, and Penny Milton on what equity in education means--and what we can do to promote it.
Addressing the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers: What It Will Take to Get Qualified, Effective Teachers in All Communities
Frank Adamson and Linda Darling-Hammond examine how and why well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States.
Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age
Take a Giant Step details a multi-sector action plan to enhance teacher education and a higher quality, 21st-century approach to the learning and healthy development of children in preschool and the primary grades.
Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
Pasi Sahlberg's Finnish Lessons is a first-hand, comprehensive account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past three decades.
Effective Teaching as a Civil Right: How Building Instructional Capacity Can Help Close the Achievement Gap
Darling-Hammond argues that better ways of evaluating teachers must be integrated with systems that develop teacher competence and motivate teaching highest-need students.
Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: A Challenge for Policy Makers
This Capitol Hill brief addresses how teacher effectiveness might best be measured, which teacher evaluation policies and practices are effective, and which policies are likely to support sound teacher evaluation.
Iowa Summit Presentation: Supporting Effective Teaching
Darling-Hammond's address at the Iowa Education Summit in Des Moines focuses on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality, and educational equity.
Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement
This study looks at the staggering numbers of suspensions and expulsions between 7th and 12th grade in Texas and examines the impact of those removals on students' lives.
Reframing Student Outcomes to Develop 21st Century Skills
Erik Rice identifies three strategic practices schools, districts, and communities can use to help prepare students for college and career success in the 21st century.
A Dangerous Obsession: Testing Students to Grade Teachers
Pointing to high-achieving nations like Finland and Korea, Linda Darling-Hammond argues that increased testing is the wrong approach to improving education in the United States.
The Service of Democratic Education
Linda Darling-Hammond reflects on the history, value, and impact of Columbia University's Teachers College at the school's 2011 commencement ceremony.
Speaking of Salaries: What It Will Take to Get Qualified, Effective Teachers in All Communities
Frank Adamson and Linda Darling-Hammond examine how and why well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States.
Performance Counts: Assessment Systems that Support High-Quality Learning
Darling-Hammond describes what a student assessment system could look like if built from current research principles and best practices found around the world.
U.S. vs Highest-Achieving Nations in Education
In this Washington Post article, Linda Darling-Hammond looks to the educational policies of the highest-achieving nations to learn what it takes to support a quality teaching force.
