Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and former sponsor of Stanford's Teacher Education Program. She is also founder and co-director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. Among her many publications, she is author or editor of The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, A License to Teach, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and A Good Teacher in Every Classroom. She began her career as a public school teacher.

"This book offers the tools teachers and teacher educators need to improve the teaching profession." (Childhood Education, Winter 2007-2008)

• Preface. Acknowledgments.PART ONE: INTRODUCTION.1. Creating Powerful Teacher Education.2. Why Teacher Education Is Important-and Difficult.3. Addressing the Dilemmas of Teacher Education: Evidence of Success.PART TWO: CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND PRACTICE.4. Conceptualizing the Knowledge Base for Teaching.5. Developing and Assessing Teaching: Constructing Performances of Understanding.6. Constructing the Clinical Experience: The Glue for Powerful Preparation.PART THREE: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.7. The Double Helix of Teaching: Managing the Dialectic Between Students and Subjects.8. Educating for Equity.9. Preparing Teachers to Reach All Students.PART FOUR: ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CHANGE.10. Transforming Teacher Education: Institutional Challenges.11. Developing Professional Policy.Appendix A. Study Methodology.Appendix B. Survey Results.Appendix C. Program StructuresReferences.About the Author.