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. :)

 

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.”

-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.”