 Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education
Stanford University, East Palo Alto, CA
Ed.D.,(Urban Education), with Highest Distinction, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
B.A., magna cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Research Areas: teacher education; school leadership development; school redesign; educational equity; instruction of diverse learners; educational policy
Research and Scholarship
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has founded and oversees the School Redesign Network, which works with schools, districts and states to develop high-quality and equitable education systems. She also founded and co-directs the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, which conducts research and policy analysis on issues affecting educational equity and opportunity.
Darling-Hammond has been identified as one of ten individuals who has had the greatest impact on educational policy over the last decade. She recently served as an adviser to President Obama and led his education policy transition team. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity.
Beginning with her work as Senior Social Scientist and Director of the RAND Corporation’s Education Policy Program and extending through appointments at Teachers College, Columbia University and Stanford University, Dr. Darling-Hammond has conducted research on a wide range of issues affecting teaching and learning and advised policymakers at all levels of government. From 1994-2001, she was 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. The report was identified one of the most influential policy reports affecting U.S. education.
At Teachers College, Darling-Hammond co-founded the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST), which supported a range of school reform initiatives in New York and nationally. As Chair of New York State's Council on Curriculum and Assessment, she assisted in the development of a comprehensive school reform plan that led to an overhaul of the state Regents examinations.
As Chair of the Model Standards Committee of the Chief State School Officers’ Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), she led the development of licensing standards for beginning teachers that were ultimately incorporated into the licensing standards of more than 40 states.
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond began her career as a public school teacher and since that time has worked with dozens of schools and districts on studying, developing, and scaling up new model of schools. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association, a two-term member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and a member of the National Academy of Education. She has served on the White House Advisory Panel's Resource Group for the National Education Goals.
Dr. Darling-Hammond is author or editor of 16 books and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and monographs.
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