Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning

Linda Darling-Hammond is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign. Darling- Hammond is past president of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, and Research-to-Policy. Among her many publications are a number of award-winning books, including The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and The Flat World and Education. Jeannie Oakes is senior policy fellow at the Learning Policy Institute; Presidential Professor of Education Equity Emeritus at UCLA; and the former director of education at the Ford Foundation. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. Oakes’s research examines the effect of social policies on the education of low-income students of color and also investigates equity-minded reform. Her books include Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform, Learning Power, and Teaching to Change the World.

"Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning is a magnum opus synthesizing much of the work in educational justice, teacher education, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher quality, and education policy to which the authors have dedicated their careers." —Bradley M. Conrad, Teachers College Record "Even if all of the ideas espoused in this text are not adopted by teacher education programs with fidelity, much can be learned from this text that will help to improve teacher education and K-12 education as a whole." —Bradley M. Conrad, Teachers College Record "The book promotes teaching that prioritizes the ability to solve problems, think critically, and effectively use interpersonal and collaborative skills." —J. C. Agnew-Tally, Choice "Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning should be required reading for today’s teachers and school administrators." —John C. Fagan, School Administrator "Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning is of interest to anyone interested in 'infrastructure' supporting deeper learning and teacher preparation. I hope that this book will reach many readers and inspire important and creative discussion among different teacher preparation programmes." —Educational Review