Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World
Project Dates:
December 2003-June 2007
This project examines eight exemplary pre- and in-service program models that address key issues in developing strong leaders.
International Policies and Practices
Colloquium Speech: Canadian Education Policy
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October 27, 2010
In this speech, Parent, President of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, looks at historic and modern trends in Canadian education policy, and their impact on equity in Canadian schools.
Colloquium Provocation Paper: Improvement, Not Innovation, Is the Key to Greater Equity
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October 27, 2010
In this paper, Ben Levin argues that policy approaches to educational improvement are necessarily different in Canada and the United States, and that greater equity in education can be achieved using practices we already know to be effective.
Colloquium Provocation Paper: The State of Equity in Canadian Education
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October 27, 2010
Mary-Lou Donnelly examines equity in the Canadian education system, focusing on the roles that teachers and teacher organizations play in Canada's high-achieving schools.
Colloquium Provocation Paper: Restoring Our Schools
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October 27, 2010
Linda Darling-Hammond looks to the practices of high achieving nations and to successes in America's past to address current education policy and the disparities in opportunity for students in the U.S.
Knowing Their Lines: How Social Boundaries Undermine Equity‐based Integration Policies in U.S. and South African Schools
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May 20, 2009
In this paper, Prudence Carter et al. argue that certain educational practices in the United States and South Africa converge to thwart integrationist goals.
Restoring Our Schools
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May 27, 2010
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.
New report outlines international lessons for improving teacher effectiveness
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March 16, 2011
Alliance for Excellent Education and SCOPE
SCOPE and the Alliance for Excellent Education publish report on highly effective teacher and leadership development systems in Finland, Ontario, and Singapore.
U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education
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In this Washington Post blog, Linda Darling-Hammond discusses discrepancies between educational strategies in United States and those employed by the world's educational leaders.
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Teacher and Leader Effectiveness in High-Performing Education Systems
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March 16, 2011
Alliance for Excellent Education & SCOPE
Linda Darling-Hammond and Robert Rothman look at three of the world's highest-performing education systems to determine how governments can better support teacher effectiveness.
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