New Videos! Linda Darling-Hammond Discusses NCTAF and Key Issues in Education Reform

Posted by NCTAF on February 14, 2012 in Announcements, Featured | 0 comments

Last week, Linda Darling-Hammond, co-founder of NCTAF and current board member, came to our offices to discuss the organizations history, its future, and some key issues in education reform. Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education at Stanford University, talked about why NCTAF was founded and the policy environment in which NCTAF’s seminal report, What Matters Most, was written and about the continuing relevancy of its findings.  Darling-Hammond also outlined her ideas for how to increase the teacher retention rate, a major problem that NCTAF documented in a 2007 study.  These conversations are captured in two videos that can be viewed on NCTAF’s YouTube Channel.

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Sofia Rivkin-Haas, Program Manager, leads the Teachers Learning in Networked Communities (TLINC) projects and contributes to NCTAF’s research and grant writing. Sofia also manages social media outreach and writes the NCTAF blog, in which she regularly analyzes and responds to current trends in education research and news.