Linda Darling-Hammond is a national figure in the field of education policy. She is the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute at Stanford University, where she is an emeritus professor of education, and she headed up President Obama’s transition team for education. She is the author of several books including The Flat World and Education, in which she declares: “One wonders what we might accomplish as a nation if we could finally set aside what appears to be our de facto commitment to inequality so profoundly at odds with our rhetoric of equity, and put the millions of dollars spent continually arguing and litigating into building a high quality education system for all children.” (p. 164)
Last Friday, Darling-Hammond delivered the weekly address at the Cleveland City Club. I was disappointed.
Darling-Hammond declared that “we have left No Child Left Behind (NCLB) behind” and implied that its…
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