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THE RIGHT TO LEARN, September 6, 2007
Susanna Loeb, Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University
Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles Ducommon Professor of Education, Stanford University
Thursday, September 6, 2007
8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:30 AM Program
Location:
AMD Commons Auditorium
991 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Click here to be taken to the registration page ($15) at the Commonwealth Club
THE RIGHT TO LEARN
Few would dispute the enormous impact that a great teacher can have on student learning. However, Stanford University recently released a report, Getting Down to Facts, highlighting significant inefficiencies in California’s effort to recruit, train, and retain outstanding teachers.
Professors Linda Darling-Hammond and Susanna Loeb, both of the Stanford Education School, will discuss the most current social science linking student outcomes to teacher training and professional development. The will also discuss the implications of Getting Down to Facts for Silicon Valley, as our state’s elected leaders prepare to make 2008 the “year of education reform.”
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network.
Prior to Stanford, Professor Darling-Hammond was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998, and Teaching as the Learning Profession (co-edited with Gary Sykes), recipient of the National Staff Development Council’s Outstanding Book Award for 2000.
SUSANNA LOEB is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Business at Stanford University. She specializes in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state, and local policies. She studies resource allocation, looking specifically at how teachers’ preferences and teacher preparation policies affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools; she also studies how the structure of state finance systems affects the level and distribution of funds to districts.
Dr. Loeb is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and in addition to teaching and research, Dr. Loeb serves as co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), an independent research center providing analysis to policymakers. She holds a B.A. in political science from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.