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Darling-Hammond, Linda; DePaoli, Jennifer – State Education Standard, 2020
For much of the last two decades, the narrowed focus on raising test scores under No Child Left Behind left important aspects of education untended. Since 2016, when the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enabled a more comprehensive look at accountability, state leaders have heard growing demands for a whole-child approach that emphasizes…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
In 1968, the Kerner Commission Report concluded that the nation was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal." Without major social changes, the Commission warned, the U.S. faced a "system of apartheid" in its major cities. Today, 50 years after the report was issued, that prediction…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Achievement Gap, Racial Discrimination, School Segregation
Adamson, Frank; Cook-Harvey, Channa; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
As charters and other public and private schools of choice have created a new landscape in many urban areas across the country, some districts have adopted the idea of creating "portfolios" of options. Central to the philosophy of a portfolio district is continuous improvement, as lowest-performing schools are transformed or replaced.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Portfolios (Background Materials), School Districts, Charter Schools
Whose Choice? Student Experiences and Outcomes in the New Orleans School Marketplace. Research Brief
Adamson, Frank; Cook-Harvey, Channa; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
As charters and other public and private schools of choice have created a new landscape in many urban areas across the country, some districts have adopted the idea of creating "portfolios" of options. Central to the philosophy of a portfolio district is continuous improvement, as lowest-performing schools are transformed or replaced. In…
Descriptors: School Choice, Portfolios (Background Materials), School Districts, Charter Schools
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Darling-Hammond, Linda – Journal of Negro Education, 2000
Outlines disparities in educational access, proposing reforms for equalizing opportunities to learn and examining social and economic challenges; reducing achievement gaps; inequality and achievement; the influence of funding on achievement (particularly among African American students); what matters in teaching (e.g., access to quality teaching,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Black Students
Darling-Hammond, Linda – 2001
This paper examines Kate Walsh's Abell Foundation report, which purports to prove there is no credible research supporting the use of teacher certification as a regulatory barrier to teaching and argues against reforms that would strengthen incentives to bring qualified teaches to inner city schools. This paper discusses inaccuracies in Walsh's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education