(Linda Darling Hammond is a member of the Board of the Horace Mann League.)
Dr. Darling Hammond heralded
for leadership in teacher quality, educational equity and school reform
Washington, D.C.
Learning First
Alliance (LFA), a partnership of 16 leading education associations with more than 10 million members dedicated to
improving student learning in America's public schools has named Linda Darling Hammond
as its 2013 Education Visionary Award winner.
The Charles E. Ducommun
Professor of Education at Stanford University and an accomplished author Darling-Hammond’s
research, teaching and ongoing policy work make her an industry leader in the areas of teacher quality and educational equity and
reform
Throughout her highly
respected career, Linda Darling-Hammond has been truly dedicated to the betterment
of public education,” said Cheryl S. Williams, executive director of the
Learning First Alliance.
Our organization is committed
to improving public education and student learning and is honored to recognize
an individual who has worked and
continues to work so diligently to achieve this common goal.” In addition to serving
as a professor, Darling-Hammond is the Co-Director of the Stanford Center for
Opportunity Policy in Education. She also launched the Stanford Educational
Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network and has served as faculty
sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program.
Darling-Hammond is the
former president of the American Educational Research Association and a member
of the National Academy of Education. From 1994 to 2001, she served as
executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future,
whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, led to sweeping
policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report
was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond
was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational
policy over the last decade. Darling
Hammond is also a
well known author of more than 400 publications including: The Flat World and Education: How America’s
Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future (2010) and Powerful Teacher Education
(2006).
Darling-Hammond holds
a BA magna cum laude from Yale University and an EdD (Urban Education) from
Temple University. She began her career as a public school teacher. Additional professional
experience includes service as Director and Senior Social Scientist for the
RAND Corporation and as William F. Russell Professor of Education and Co-Director
of the National
Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching at Teachers College,
Columbia University. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for
the National Council for Educating Black Children, the Alliance for Excellent
Education, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and the
Center for Teaching Quality, among others. She was also education adviser to
President Obama during the 2008 election campaign and led his education policy
transition team.
Honorees of the
Learning First Alliance Education Visionary Award are individuals who exhibit:
· Exceptional leadership in bringing
groups who have a variety of points of view together to work collaboratively
·Tenacity in focusing on the needs of
children from all environmental and economic backgrounds
·Respect for professional educators and
a belief that they too have the best interests of children as the focus of
their work
·A demonstrated belief that public
education is the cornerstone of our democratic way of life and should be nurtured
for the benefit of every American.
Previous recipients
of the Education Visionary Award includeformer U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard
W. Riley (2011) and founder of the
Center on Education Policy
Jack Jennings (2012)
.
To learn more about
the Learning First Alliance and its Education Visionary Award, visit
www.learningfirst.org
.
About The Learning
First Alliance
The Learning First
Alliance is a partnership of 16 leading education associations with more than
10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America's public
schools. Alliance members include: the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education, American Association of School Administrators, American Association of
School Personnel Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, American
School Counselor Association,
Association for
Middle Level Education (formerly National Middle School Association),
International Society for Technology in Education, Learning Forward (formerly
National Staff Development Council), National Association of Elementary School
Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association
of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National School
Public Relations Association, National PTA, National School Boards Association
and Phi Delta Kappa International. The
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