that having passed a rigorous standardized assessment will afford the teaching profession the type of respect garnered by law, accounting, or technical professions. It will make the ways in which ...

Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the learning process, how effective our instructional strategies have been, and if there are additional ...

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommon professor of education at Stanford University, where she is co-director of the Stanford Center on Opportunity Policy in Education. She was founding ...