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11/12/07: Changing America's Schools

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Reformer and scholar Linda Darling-Hammond says that bureaucratic solutions to weaknesses in the country's education system will always fail. She argues that instead of handing down solutions from "on-high," the school system will improve by focusing on things like high teacher quality and student equity. Monday, we're broadcasting live from the Utah Education Policy Forum, where Darling-Hammond joins Doug to talk about her ideas for change.

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