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New York, N.Y. (March 7, 2007) The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) presented Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University’s College of Education with the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education at the Association’s 59th Annual Meeting & Exhibits in New York City.
The award recognizes an individual whose research over the past decade has made a major impact on the field on teacher education.
Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University. She launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network during her tenure and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to her work at Stanford, Darling-Hammond was William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching.
Her research, teaching and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998, and Teaching as the Learning Profession (co-edited with Gary Sykes), recipient of the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000.
"Margaret Lindsay was an extraordinary teacher educator whose influence in shaping teacher education as a profession is felt to this day," said Darling-Hammond. "To receive an award bearing her name is a great honor, especially as it comes from AACTE, an organization that has a long history of working to ensure that all students have access to highly qualified teachers,” she said.
“Linda Darling-Hammond leads a short list of those who have a thorough understanding of teaching as professional work. Her scholarship is extensive and influential. Her passion for the profession and for all learners is an example and an inspiration to those who are privileged to know her,” said Sharon P. Robinson, president and CEO of AACTE.
For more information on the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education please contact Jade Floyd, AACTE communications manager, at jfloyd@aacte.org or 202.478.4596.
