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Honors for Linda Darling-Hammond
The Learning First Alliance, the Erikson Institute, and the American Educational Research Association recently honored Darling-Hammond's contributions to policy and scholarship.
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Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance cover

Closing the Opportunity Gap
Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner bring together leading education experts to discuss policy and reform efforts that tackle the inequality of learning opportunities in U.S. schools.
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Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement cover

Getting Teacher Evaluation Right
Darling-Hammond's new book makes a compelling case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning.
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News

It’s the opportunity gap, stupid
It’s the opportunity gap, stupid
In this op-ed, Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner ask, why do we ignore that poverty is what produces the achievement gap?
What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate
What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate
In this Washington Post op-ed, Linda Darling-Hammond writes about why teacher collaboration time is so important to the profession. 
‘Test-and-punish’ sabotages quality of children’s education
‘Test-and-punish’ sabotages quality of children’s education
In an op-ed for MSNBC, Linda Darling-Hammond argues that rather than improving education, the current obsession with test scores undermines the quality of education.
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The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) fosters research, policy, and practice to advance high quality, equitable education systems in the United States and internationally.

SCOPE is an affiliate of the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and sponsors the work of the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity.

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