AVReading Newsletter January-- Schools, Teaching, and Teachers
Over break, I’ve had the chance to read and enjoy Linda Darling-Hammond’s The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (2010). It has served as an excellent reminder of what we know about schools, what we are doing well, and what we could probably still do better. As we continue our focus this year on educational research and how we can use it to improve our classrooms and our school, I would like to devote this month’s newsletter to some of those big and small picture findings that Darling-Hammond offers. While the book is fairly detailed, I will limit my focus to key findings in the areas of schools, teachers, and practices. When it comes to schools in the U.S., Darling-Hammond pulls out some of the well-worn scores from international testing, which show how our schools are falling behind in compari...