Publications Archive

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.

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.

Darling-Hammond argues that better ways of evaluating teachers must be integrated with systems that develop teacher competence and motivate teaching highest-need students.

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.

Darling-Hammond's address at the Iowa Education Summit in Des Moines focuses on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality, and educational equity.

This study of nearly 1 million Texas public school students looks at the staggering numbers of suspensions and expulsions between 7th and 12th grade and examines the impact of those removals on students' lives.

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.

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.