Education and the Election: A Conversation With Linda Darling-Hammond
April 22, 2016
Alverno College honored Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond with the Sister Joel Read Outstanding
Educator Award at a ceremony on April 7. The award recognizes educational leaders
who have brought significant improvements to education through their leadership, practice
and scholarship. It is only the second time anyone has been given this award.
Dr. Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford
University, where she launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
and the School Redesign Network. She served as executive director of the National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose report, “What
Matters Most: Teaching and America's Future,” was named one of the most influential
reports in U.S. education and led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and
teacher education. She was also named one of the nation's ten most influential people
affecting educational policy over the past decade.
WUWM stopped by to talk with Dr. Darling-Hammond before the award ceremony. You can
listen to the story here:
