LPI In the News

Browse By

Showing 341 - 350 of 350 resources

In the News

Schools Increasingly Turn to ‘Underprepared’ Teachers to Fill Vacancies

Jan 19 2016
|
EdSource by Louis Freedberg | To cope with a widening shortage of teachers, California school districts are hiring an increasing number of teachers with “substandard” permits and credentials, as well as relying on short-term substitute teachers, according to a new report.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
In the News

Federal Officials Urged Not to Step on State’s School Reforms

Jan 19 2016
|
EdSource by John Fensterwald | Superintendents, teachers, advocates for students, and business and community leaders sounded a strong, though not unanimous, call Monday for federal officials to give California wide berth to fashion a school improvement system without micromanagement from Washington.
In the News

The 2016 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings

Jan 14 2016
|
Education Next by Frederick Hess | Each year, on his blog Rick Hess Straight Up, EdNext executive editor and AEI scholar Rick Hess honors and ranks the 200 education scholars who had the biggest influence on the nation’s education discourse. Linda Darling-Hammond topped the list, which also included many Learning Policy Institute fellows.

Topic Educator Quality
In the News

Public Engagement Is Essential to Scholarship

Jan 13 2016
|
Education Week Commentary by Jeannie Oakes | Education policymaking must negotiate strongly held public perceptions and contested political terrain—factors usually far more influential than research findings.
In the News

5 Sources of Support for New TESOL Teachers

Jan 11 2016
|
TESOL blog by Kristen Lindhal | The author lists five online resources that focus on different strategies for supporting new teachers. The final two, which includes ASCD’s Interview with Dr. Linda-Darling-Hammond, are aimed at teacher educators, administrators, or mentors.

Topics Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
In the News

The Five Themes of ESSA Coverage

Jan 08 2016
|
Education Next by Andy Smarick | In discussing the first of five themes on coverage of the Every Student Succeeds Act - the diminished role of Uncle Sam in schools - the author quotes David Kirp's New York Times December 2015 column.
In the News

Stanford Faculty Named Among the Most Influential in Shaping Education Policy and Practice

Jan 08 2016
|
Stanford News by Brooke Donald | The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, released its annual list of 200 national education scholars who are contributing most substantially to discussions on schools and schooling policy and practices. Twenty scholars from Stanford, including 15 from the Graduate School of Education, are among those recognized. Linda Darling-Hammond, professor emerita of education, tops the list.

Topic Educator Quality
In the News

Three Duke Researchers Rank as Highly Influential by Education Week

Jan 08 2016
|
Triangle Business Journal by Jason deBruyn | Three Duke University professors, including LPI Research Fellow Helen Ladd, were placed on Education Week’s 2016 list of influential researchers.

Topic Educator Quality
In the News

More on How States Should Navigate New Opportunities Under ESSA (Part 2 of 2)

Jan 07 2016
|
Education Next by Charles Barone, Bill Jackson, Dane Linn and Linda Darling-Hammond | After 14 years, Congress has finally overhauled No Child Left Behind. The new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) returns substantial autonomy to states when it comes to school accountability, teacher evaluation, school improvement, and much else. Linda Darling-Hammond writes that states should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by ESSA.
In the News

Major Education Issues to Watch in 2016 – and Predictions of What to Expect

Jan 04 2016
|
EdSource by John Fensterwald with Susan Frey | There are nine big issues to follow in 2016, including teacher shortages. The article includes his predictions about whether anything will change during the year.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning, Early Childhood Learning, Educator Quality

Pages

In the News

Op-ed: Trump “safety” commission proposals could undermine school safety

Dec 12 2018

The Hill by Linda Darling-Hammond and Christopher Edley | The Trump administration's school safety commission released a report December 18, 2018, that recommends rescinding the Obama administration's guidance on school discipline, which has helped states substantially improve school safety. Previous to the release, Linda Darling-Hammond and Chris Edley warned that rescinding the guidance will make schools less safe, and that solid research on children’s safety should trump politics.

In the News

Teacher Vacancies Impacting Chicago-Area Students and Taxpayers

Nov 27 2018

NBC Chicago by Chris Coffey and Ron Campbell | The solution to keeping your school’s best and brightest teachers from fleeing the classroom: better working conditions, more administrative support and higher salaries. That’s according to education policy experts who are urging the nation’s school districts to invest in teachers now in order to reverse troubling turnover rates.

In the News

Teachers are seeing their colleagues leave the profession at an alarming rate, and this might be why

Nov 15 2018

Insider by Kelly McLaughlin | Educators are seeing record-high turnover in their schools in recent years. An LPI study found that turnover rates are higher for teachers in schools serving large concentrations of students of color. The study also suggests that the reasons teachers leave include lack of administrative support, low salaries, accountability pressures, working conditions, and lack of advancement.

Pages

Featured Resources