The right to learn
Subtitle: a blueprint for creating schools that work
By: Linda Darling-Hammond.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: School management and organization -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Education and state -- United States; Learning; Teaching -- United States
Description: In this important book, one of the nation's most respected educators, Linda Darling-Hammond, describes learner-centered schools that work for students in all kinds of communities and outlines the policies and practices that are needed to create these schools on a systemwide basis. Using in-depth interviews with dozens of teachers and studies of many successful schools, Darling-Hammond shows that good schools best serve learners by allowing good teaching to flourish.

Reducing bureaucratic demands, favoring competence over procedures, nurturing and rewarding professional development, supporting curriculum and assessment that are relevant and challenging, and stimulating inside-out change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-376) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The right to learn; title: The limits of the education bureaucracy; title: What matters for teaching; title: Teaching and learning for understanding; title: Structuring learner-centered schools; title: Staffing schools for teaching and learning; title: Creating standards without standardization; title: Ensuring access to knowledge; title: Building democratic profession of teaching; title: Conclusion.