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"Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers."

-//The Right to Learn// by Linda Darling-Hammond

Linda Darling-Hammond is the author of many books, articles and reports written about the field of education. A few of her books include; //The right to learn: a blueprint for creating schools that work// (1997), //A good teacher in every classroom: preparing the highly qualified teachers our children deserve// (coauthored with Joan Baratz-Snowden, 2005), and //The flat world and education: how America's commitment to equity will determine our future// (2010). During Darling-Hammond’s career she has taught in colleges and high schools as well as classrooms with younger students.

Currently, she is the Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University. Darling-Hammond’s birthplace is Cleveland, Ohio. She was born on Dec. 21, 1951. Darling-Hammond received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1973, where she graduated magna cum laude. She received her Doctor of Education degree from Temple University in 1978 with highest distinction. She has received numerous educational awards as well as multiple honorary degrees. Darling-Hammond was considered by Barack Obama as a candidate for the Secretary of Education in his administration.

Although quite active in the field of education, Linda Darling-Hammond's major contribution is her views on preparing highly qualified teachers. Hammond is opposed to programs that train teachers without providing a background in pedagogy such as Teach for America. Hammond asserts that in many of the nation's poorest producing schools, the teachers do not have the needed education or experience in working with chidren. Hammond is a strong propentent of providing every student in America with a teacher who has the needed skills to teach them effectively.


 * REFERENCES:**

Darling-Hammond, L. (1997). The right to learn: a blueprint for creating schools that work. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

Darling-Hammond, L. (2008, October). Standford University School of Education [Resume]. Retrieved October 24, 2009, from http://stanford.edu/~ldh/resume.html

Glickman, C. (2004). Letters to the next president: what we can do about the real crisis in public education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Time Topics: Linda Darling-Hammond. (n.d.). The New York Times. Retrieved from http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/d/linda_darlinghammond/index.html