SCOPE Blog Archive
To Close the Achievement Gap, We Need to Close the Teaching Gap
In a blog for Huffington Post, Linda Darling-Hammond says we have international evidence about something that has a greater effect on learning than testing: teaching.
It's Time for a New Accountability in American Education
Linda Darling-Hammond and AFT President Randi Weingarten discuss how new standards cannot succeed under an old accountability system.
Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core
In the magazine Principal, Linda Darling-Hammond argues that new performance assessments can help improve instruction and guide school improvement.
School Reform: Learning From Around the World
Ann Lieberman, a featured author in Leading Educational Change, discusses what it means to be a teacher in different countries.
Linda Darling-Hammond on the Common Core Standards
Diane Ravitch's blog features a post by Linda Darling-Hammond on how to treat the Common Core State Standards as guideposts and not straitjackets.
The next generation of assessments can—and must—be better
Linda Darling-Hammond and Frank Adamson write that open-ended, teacher-scored assessments that reinforce higher-order thinking skills are affordable and within reach.
Why the NCTQ teacher prep ratings are nonsense
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Darling-Hammond explains why the NCTQ ratings of teacher preparation programs are seriously flawed.
It’s the opportunity gap, stupid
In this op-ed, Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner ask, why do we ignore that poverty is what produces the achievement gap?
What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate
In this Washington Post op-ed, Linda Darling-Hammond writes about why teacher collaboration time is so important to the profession.
‘Test-and-punish’ sabotages quality of children’s education
In an op-ed for MSNBC, Linda Darling-Hammond argues that rather than improving education, the current obsession with test scores undermines the quality of education.
