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Effective Teaching as a Civil Right: How Building Instructional Capacity Can Help Close the Achievement Gap

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October 1, 2011
Linda Darling-Hammond
Voices in Urban Education

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

 

Restoring Our Schools

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May 27, 2010
Linda Darling-Hammond
The Nation

Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the need to move beyond a collection of disparate and shifting reform initiatives in the U.S. to a thoughtful, well-organized and well-supported set of policies.

Black Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and the Conflict of Schooling for Low-Income African American Youth

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January 1, 2003
Prudence L. Carter
Social Problems, vol. 50, No. 1, Pgs. 136-155

In this article, Carter provides evidence of the coexistence of “dominant” and “non-dominant” forms of capital within the social and academic lives of poor ethnic minority students.

 

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Beyond Ascription

Racial Identity, Culture, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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January 1, 2004
Prudence L. Carter
The Dubois Review, vol 1, No. 2, Pgs. 377-388

Prudence Carter argues for a more complex understanding of racial identity and meaning making in order to better understand and alleviate academic attainment gaps among all groups of American students.

 

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How Nations Invest in Teachers: High-Achieving Nations Treat their Teachers as Professionals

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February 1, 2009
Ruth Chung Wei, Alethea Andree, and Linda Darling-Hammond
Educational Leadership (ASDC)

This Ed Leadership article by Ruth Chung Wei and Linda Darling-Hammond is drawn from a larger study and examines what other nations are doing that the U.S. could adopt to create a powerful teaching force.

 

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