LPI In the News

Forbes by Aviva Legatt | Leading universities aren't using just GPA and test scores for college admissions decisions anymore. Many are now incorporating performance assessments—evaluations that emphasize students' demonstrated learning and acquired skills.

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.

Education Week by Catherine Gewertz | The Learning Policy Institute's new project, Reimagining College Access, aims to help colleges use more complex gauges of student learning in admission, course placement, and advising.

In this podcast, Linda Darling-Hammond discusses Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning systems that produce a range of positive outcomes, from student achievement to equity and from a professionalized teaching workforce to the integration of research and practice. 

LPI researchers are making a significant impact in shaping educational practice and policy, according to the latest RHSU Edu-Scholar rankings released last week by Education Week. The rankings, in their eighth year, recognize the top 200 university affiliated scholars whose work is impacting practice and policy in meaningful ways.

WBUR On Point | America has a teacher shortage that’s expected to keep growing. Many quick-fix solutions short-change American students. LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond and other education experts discuss with guest host Ray Suarez.

Tara Kini, LPI's Director of State Policy, was in Sacramento on December 5, 2017 to testify at a joint oversight hearing of the Higher Education and Education committees on the shortfall of credentialed teachers in California. Watch the recording.

The Washington Post | This post is a deep, definitive dive into teacher attrition and what can be done about it. It was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, Leib Sutcher and Desiree Carver-Thomas, all of the California-based Learning Policy Institute, which conducts independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice.

Newsweek | The U.S. Labor Department predicts that the teaching sector will grow 6% by the year 2024. In addition to this, a recent Learning Policy Institute report raised concern about the number of underprepared teachers who have been assigned to some schools. More than ever, opportunities for effective and inspirational teachers are at an all-time high.

Newsweek | California voters may have a solution to their state's teacher shortage: paying instructors the same hefty salaries as they pay their politicians. The proposed Teachers Fair Pay referendum would peg teachers' pay to the wages of state lawmakers, roughly $104,000 a year. It’s a bold move in a time when schools are desperately scrambling for innovative ways to retain teachers and recruit new teachers.