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Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, created to provide high-quality research for policies that enable equitable and empowering education for each and every child. At Stanford she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign.

Research interests:
- Achievement
- Assessment, testing and measurement
- Diversity and Identity
-  International and Comparative Education
- Special Education
- Standards
- Teachers and Teaching

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She is a professor at an university she founded herself with the intention to bring a high quality research evidence into the education policy deliberations.

On top of that she was the president of the American Educational Research Association.Before all of that she worked as a public school teacher und co-founded a preschool and a public high school.

The fact that impressed me the most is, that she served as the leader of President Obama’s education policy transition team. She is known to (try to) ensure all children and especially the most vulnerable.

Its somehow crazy that she published more than 500 publications (including a number of award-winning books) and I never heard of her.

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Her research and policy work focus on issues of educational equity, teaching quality, and school reform. Some important milestones:
- she was president of the American Educational Research Association
- In 2006, she was named one of the USA's ten most influential people affecting educational policy
- she worked on President Obama's Education Policy Transition Team
- she has over 500 publications and won also awards for her books

--> I'm really interested in her work on Obama's Education Policy Transition Team but I couldn't find any (free) articles about it. If somebody could find anything let me know...

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Regarding education Linda Darling Hammond is an important influencer. Not only was she education advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, but she also really developed schools and school programs.
I admire her engagement and work on equity and quality.

For us as primary teacher she is a good role model. She started her career as a public school teacher and now she is one of America’s 10 most influential people concerning education policy.

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Preparing Educators for the time of COVID... and beyond

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Preparing Educators for the time of COVID... and beyond

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on learning goals
 ->more performance-oriented assessments

One of her great researching interests 

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She achieved a lot in her life. The most impressive thing being one of the top candidates for United States Secretary of Education in the Obama administration.

I looked thorough one of her article which states that
-teachers with a longer education period  DO in fact become better teachers.

-The qualitative difference is especially visible during "higher order tasks" which do include creative problem-solving.

-The teachers who graduated via the "traditional" way also showed more knowledge regarding the curriculum, learning in general, different teaching methods, classroom managing and diagnosing students learning needs

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-Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education

-President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute

-wrote over 25 books and 500 articles

-education advisor for Obamas 2008 presidential campaign

-she helped to fashion a comprehensive school reform plan for the state of New York:
->focus on learning goals
->more performance-oriented assessments

One of her great researching interests is testing and assessments and there are also a lot of articles about this topic showing up when googling her name.

Interesting quote:
“We badly need a national policy that enables schools to meet the intellectual demands of the twenty-first century (and) we need to pay off the educational debt to disadvantaged students that has accrued over centuries of unequal access to quality education.”

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She’s achieved a lot in her life. I am impressed by her getting awarded for her Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement and Research-to-Policy and that her report “What matters most: Teaching for America’s Future” was named one of the most influential reports affecting U.S. education in that decade. It’s really inspiring hearing of someone who seems to have dedicated her life to education and its potential. The way she spoke about education and what schools, teachers and institutions can and should contribute to make for a brighter future, left an impression on me. I feel like her perspective on education derives from her essential awareness of children being the future of society.

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Linda Darling-Hammond is an extremely remarkable woman and Professor at Stanford University that began her career as a public school teacher and co-founded both a public high school as well as a preschool.

Her research examines the policy and practice approaches that will ensure all children, especially the most vulnerable, have access to excellent teachers and empowering learning experiences. She is an authority on school reform, teacher quality, educational equality and encourages the work of teacher training academies.

She wants to improve the school system and help teachers to have a positive impact on their pubils’ learning.

I like to google quotes from people to get a little overlook and this quote by Linda Darling-Hammond stuck out: “A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.”

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-born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951
-B.A. from Yale
-public school teacher for a year
-after doctorate degree worked als Social Scientist
-executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future --> one of the most influential reports affecting U.S. education:

What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future:
-demanding improvements in teacher education
-access to education (equality and equity)

-more than 500 publications including The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World and The Flat World and Education

-Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school reform, educational equity, and teaching quality.

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- started also as a "simple" public school teacher and made it all the way to become the education advisor to Barack Obamas presidential campaign in 2008
- she wrote over 25 books and more than 500 articles
- she co-founded a preschool and a public high school.
- held a TED Talk about testing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_vWcS1NTA
-->  most of the standartized tests are useless in terms of predicting success in the "real-work-life". When do you ever go into an office get a worksheet with questions and set answers (which you can just check off) and go home ? probably never!

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Linda Darling Hammond teaches for the American future

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Linda Darling Hammond teaches for the American future

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She begann her career as a public school teacher and co-foundad a preschool and public high school. Diffrent positions in universities and more than 500 publications are her credits. Im fascinated by her power and membership in different associations. She ssems to be the new powerwoman ;-)

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In 2006, Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy

In 2008, she directed President Barack Obama's Education Policy Transition Team

more than 600 publications

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The 68 years old woman is known for her studies about how to structure school, giving students better chances to learn, her books (she wrote more than 20) and all in all her immense knowledge when it comes to those topics.

There are a few books looking quite interesting and I would be really interested in reading those, as soon as I have got the time:)
(the right to learn, be the change, with the whole child, etc.)

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Linda Darling Hammond is a Professor at the Stanford University and she wrote a lot of interesting books about teaching, special education e.g.

I looked through the award-winning book "The flat world and education" and it was very interesting.
The book lays out what the United Statets need to do in order to build a system of high-achieving schools that ensures every child the right to learn. I think, this is a very important topic.

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= past president oft he American Education Research Association

work now: professor of education emeritus at Standford University

achievements: policy and practice approaches that will ensure all children, empowering learning experiences, performence assessment, wrote some award-winning books

By the way: In 2008, served as the leader of President Barack Obama’s education policy transition team. :)

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Linda Darling-Hammond (I like her surname!)

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Linda Darling-Hammond (I like her surname!)

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Linda Darling-Hammond is a Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research interests are:

- Achievement
- Assessment, testing and measurement
- Diversity and Identity
- International and Comparative Education
- Special Education
- Standards
- Teachers and Teaching
- ...

and the list goes on and one :)

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does research and policy work about educational equity, teaching quality and school reform. she promotes
- learning goals
- performance-oriented assessment
- improved teacher assessment
she's written 25 books - which one would you recommend?

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She's written tons of books.
I had a scroll through Preparing teachers for a changing world: What teachers should learn and be able to do. However I couldn't have a look at the whole book since the free version only gives me a couple chapters.

- first it's about how all jobs have to develop after time and that many teachers haven't seen that yet for their job.
- gives reason, why teachers have to develop too rather than stick to old patterns

- Classroommanagement: A topic that I'm very interested in
- it's the first ever book (that I read) that not only provides theory about crm but also a very detailed example of a teacher's classroom

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She's a Stanford University professor and writes about a lot of topics related to school. Not only does she look at the pupils and how they can be supported but also the teacher education which is very important. She describes how it is necessary to also think about modern pedagogic strategies and how to incorporate technology in the classroom. Her focus also seems to be on how teachers can influence their pupils and the future in a positive way.