Policy Research
Charter Schools
Keeping the Promise: The Debate Over Charter Schools (2008, Rethinking Schools) features chapters by some of education's leading thinkers on issues concerning Charter Schools. Among the chapters is, "Keeping the Promise: The Role of Policy in Reform" by SRN Co-Executive Director and Stanford University education professor Linda Darling-Hammond and SRN reseacher Kenneth Montgomery.
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No Child Left Behind
In testimony before Congress on September 10, 2007, Linda Darling-Hammond spoke on the reauthorization of NCLB. Her comments focused on provisions to encourage multiple measures of assessment and multiple indicators of school progress, provisions to improve the quality and distribution of the teaching force, and means for measuring school progress from year to year.
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High School Redesign
Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2006-2007 (Brookings
Institution Press, 2007) — "High School Size, Organization, and
Content: What Matters for Student Success?" (Chapter)
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Peter Ross, and Michael Milliken
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Principal Preparation Programs
Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons
from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs — Executive Summary
(Stanford Educational Leadership Institute; April 2007)
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School Leadership Study: Developing Successful
Principals — Review of Research
(Stanford Educational Leadership Institute; August, 2005)
By Stephen Davis, Linda Darling-Hammond, Michelle LaPointe & Debra Meyerson
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Austin District Redesign
Austin Independent School District and the School Redesign
Network at Stanford University: A Partnership for Successful
School Redesign
(SRN LEADS, January 2007)
By Raymond Pecheone, Paul Tytler & Peter Ross
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Testing in Washington State
Report
on Washington Assessment of Student Learning
(School
redesign Network, December 2006)
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Laura McCloskey, Raymond
Pecheone
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Teacher Preparation
Does Teacher Preparation Matter? Teacher Certification,
Teach for America, and Teacher Effectiveness
(Stanford
University, April 2005)
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Deborah J. Holtzman, Su Jin
Gatlin & Julian Vasquez Heilig
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High School Exit Exams
Multiple Measures Approaches to High School
Graduation
(School
Redesign Network, April 2004)
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Elle Rustique-Forrester & Raymond Pecheone
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School Redesign
Redesigning Schools: 10 Features of Effective Design
(School Redesign Network)
By Linda Darling-Hammond
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Reinventing High School: Outcomes of the Coalition Campus Schools
Program (American Educational Research Journal, Fall 2002)
by Linda Darling-Hammond, Jacqueline Ancess and Susanna
Wichterle Ort
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redesigning schools
Across the nation, there is a growing consensus that schools must change in fundamental ways if they are to accomplish the goals we now have for them: teaching our very diverse student population for higher order thinking and deep understanding. The system we work in today was invented nearly 100 years ago for another time and another mission - the processing of large numbers of students for rote skills and the education of only a few for knowledge work. It was never designed to teach all children to high levels. Caring and dedicated teachers, administrators, and parents work hard every day within this system to educate our children for more ambitious thinking and performance skills - and yet their efforts are often stymied by outmoded institutional structures, most notably the large, impersonal, factory-model school.
Excerpt from Redesigning Schools: 10 Features of Effective Design
© 2007 SRN LEADS
