The Right to Learn A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work

by Darling-Hammond, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780787959425
• ISBN10: 0787959421
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-17
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998 "While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education for all children are possible. Her book is positive and hopeful and serves as a fascinating account of American education and its promise of 'the right to learn' for all children." --Washington Post "Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. She argues that American students do so poorly by comparison with students in other industrialized countries not because we don't give them enough work, but because our teaching is less thoughtful, and because we are obsessed with bureaucratic processes rather than educational outcomes." --New York Times Book Review One of the nation's most respected educators provides a vision of exceptional, learner-centered schools and describes the policies and practices that are needed to create these schools on a system-wide basis.

Author Biography

LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, and executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. She lives in Stanford, California with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
The Author	xix
The Right to Learn	1	(36)
The Limits of the Education Bureaucracy	37	(32)
What Matters for Teaching	69	(27)
Teaching and Learning for Understanding	96	(52)
Structuring Learner-Centered Schools	148	(29)
Staffing Schools for Teaching and Learning	177	(33)
Creating Standards Without Standardization	210	(51)
Ensuring Access to Knowledge	261	(32)
Building a Democratic Profession of Teaching	293	(37)
Conclusion: An Agenda for Re-Creating Public Education	330	(9)
References	339	(38)
Name Index	377	(8)
Subject Index	385