Emerita Professor of Education, Stanford University
Background
Publications
Linda Darling-Hammond
The Lens
Is There a Third Way for ESEA?
Linda Darling-Hammond, Paul Hill
This blog was originally published in the Huffington Post.
Last month, a highly polarized debate waylaid a House vote on the federal government’s most important education legislation: the LBJ-era Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
The Lens
Can We Agree on School Accountability?
Linda Darling-Hammond, Paul Hill
Last week, California’s State Board of Education took another step toward a new school accountability system, including the launch this spring of new tests that call for higher order thinking skills.
Research Reports
Accountability and the Federal Role: A Third Way on ESEA
Linda Darling-Hammond, Paul Hill
In this paper, two different “camps” on school reform find common ground on how to improve educational accountability.