Background
Darling-Hammond, Linda was born on December 21, 1951 in Cleveland.
(Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goal...)
Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.
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(This classic book, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond, expla...)
This classic book, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond, explains the function, structure, and philosophy of the professional development school. The text includes case studies, taken from urban and suburban settings, that illustrate the accomplishments of these schools as well as the challenges they face as they strive to create a new and viable vision for the improvement of the American educational system.
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Darling-Hammond, Linda was born on December 21, 1951 in Cleveland.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Yale University, 1973. Doctor of Education in Urban Education, Temple University, 1978.
Director, senior social scientist Education & Human Resources Program Research and Development corporation, 1985—1989. William F. Russel professor education Columbia University Teacher's College, 1989—1998, co-director National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching, 1989—1998. Charles Ducommon professor teaching & teaching education Stanford University, since 1998, principal investigator, co-director, School Redesign Network (SRN) & Stanford Leadership Institute, since 2000.
Chair standards drafting panel Council Chief State School Officers, Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, since 1991. Member National Advisory Commission, The College Board, Equity 2000, since 1993, Carnegie Corporation Task Force on Learing in the Primary Grades, since 1994. Executive director National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 1994—2001, board member, since 2001.
Member advisory board Center for Policy Research in Education, since 1996. Member technical review panel for the schools an staffing survey United States Department Education, since 1997. Member International Advisory Council, San Francisco Exploratorium, since 1998.
Faculty sponsor Stan Stanford Teaching Education Program, 1998—2004. Co-chair California Professional Development Task Force, 2000. Member advisory board George Lucas Education Foundation, since 2000, Center for Teaching Quality, since 2001.
Board member Alliance for Excellent Education, since 2005. Principal investigator, co-director Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution), since 2008. Member advisory board National Council for Educating Black Children, 2007.
Member advisory panel National Staff Development Council, since 2007. Member Council Chief State School Officers Formative Assessment Advisory Group, since 2007.
(Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goal...)
(This classic book, edited by Linda Darling-Hammond, expla...)
Member of National Academy Education (chair committee on teacher education since 2000).