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Maybe it's Time to Ask the Teachers?

In this Huffington Post blog, Linda Darling-Hammond assess current education policy and its impact on developing, recruiting and retaining great teachers.

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Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching

In this Education Week article Linda Darling-Hammond writes that value-added models are poor tools for evaulating teacher effectiveness and improving student achivement and mentions some effective alternatives.
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Evaluating Teacher Evaluation

In this PDK article, leading researchers weigh in on value-added measures of teacher assessment.

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For California schools, we need less testing and more assessing

In this Sac Bee op-ed, Linda Darling-Hammond commends Gov. Jerry Brown's call for less testing and more focus on meaningful learning as a welcome breath of sanity in the American education landscape.

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Why is Congress redlining our schools?

Linda Darling-Hammond argues that the new Senate vision for ESEA will weaken schools in the most vulnerable communities and further contribute to their failure.  

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NCLB: Perspectives on the law

Linda Darling-Hammond argues that after 10 years of missed opportunity under NCLB, we must learn from our experience to accelerate academic progress and improve the quality of learning in American schools.

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Let citizens vote on raising taxes to fund schools

California faces more cuts in education funding but, as Linda Darling-Hammond writes in this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, Californians are willing to pay higher taxes to support education.

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Restoring our schools: The quest for equity in the United States

In this blog for the Canadian Education Association, Linda Darling-Hammond explores why the gap between the U.S. and high-achieving nations like Canada is growing. 

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Teachers paid much less than their peers

In this piece, cross-posted from U.S. News & World Report's Debate Club, Darling-Hammond responds to the claim that American teachers are overpaid.

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A dangerous obsession: Testing students to grade teachers

Linda Darling-Hammond addresses the challenges of assessing teachers by testing students as part of a New York Times discussion forum.Read more

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