LPI In the News

Hechinger Report by Linda Darling-Hammond and John King | In this Hechinger Report commentary, Linda Darling-Hammond and John King note that while a majority of the nation’s public school students are students of color, fewer than 20% of our nation’s teachers are teachers of color. They explain what we can do, as a nation, to recruit and support teachers of color.

Time MONEY by Jennifer Calfas | LPI president and CEO Linda Darling-Hammond explains that, starting in the Great Recession and continuing through its recovery, large numbers of teachers were laid off and salaries were frozen, making working conditions more difficult and teaching a less attractive profession.

The Sacramento Bee by Linda Darling-Hammond | As budget negotiations move into their final stages, California policymakers must make a decision that will have profound consequences for California’s public school students and the state’s future: Are they ready to make the serious investments necessary to resolve California’s severe teacher shortages and build the strong and stable workforce needed to prepare our students for the high-tech, knowledge-based economy they will enter?

NBC News by Adam Edelman | Some school districts across the U.S. are cutting the school week down to 4 days to save money on operating expensves and to attract new teachers to alleviate teacher shortages. Is it working? 

Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria | Zakaria points out that teaching was once recognized as one of the most important and laudable jobs in the U.S., but today, teachers are undervalued, underpaid, and under-resourced. It shouldn’t be this way. After all, teaching is the one profession that makes all others possible. 

NEW EDWEEK BLOG SERIES: Across the country, momentum is building for schools and communities to help young people develop the social, emotional, and academic skills that evidence shows are needed for success in school and in life. There's a deepening recognition that skills such as responsibility and problem-solving, empathy and service, self-control and persistence, all form a solid foundation for academic achievement and personal growth.

CNN by Linda Darling-Hammond | In a new CNN commentary, LPI’s Linda Darling-Hammond sheds light on the problems that have contributed to the teachers’ strikes taking place around the country and the solutions that could make a difference for teachers, their students, their schools, and our society.

EdSource by Louis Freedberg | A story on LPI’s new report Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color featuring researcher Desiree Carver Thomas.

Los Angeles Times by David Kirp | In this Los Angeles Times op-ed, UC Berkeley Professor and LPI Senior Fellow David Kirp explains how and why money matters in education, and points to new research that shows California’s Local Control Funding Formula is shrinking the achievement gap.

This story, filed by Al Jazeera, provides a compelling overview of a recent LPI event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Kerner Commission report on race and equality in the United States. The report concludes that racial inequity is still a pressing concern and child poverty is worse.