Kia Darling-Hammond, Linda Darling-Hammond
Foreword by: James A. Banks
Publication Date: September 23, 2022
Pages: 144
Series: Multicultural Education Series
This concise and compelling book outlines the key civil rights conditions that are essential to deeper learning—the skills and knowledge that students need to succeed in 21st-century jobs and life. It describes schools that enable young people, including those traditionally furthest from opportunity, to develop into caring and critical problem solvers, effective communicators, collaborators, and scholars. The book also describes the community and school inequities that have created persistent obstacles to these goals and the civil rights actions that have been and continue to be needed to remove them. These include policies and practices that ensure safe and healthy communities, equitable investments in public schools, supports for competent teachers, strategies for welcoming and nurturing school climates, and innovative curricula. The authors examine the the civil-rights–based pathways that lead to these goals, highlighting examples of exemplary schools that offer the kind of deeper learning that engages and empowers students. This successor to Linda Darling-Hammond’s Grawemeyer Award–winner, The Flat World and Education, is a big-picture view of what constitutes deeper learning—where it is found and what enables it—and what must be done to address the learning needs of all children.
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Kia Darling-Hammond is author of the Bridge to Thriving Framework(c) and CEO of Wise Chipmunk, through which she offers learning opportunities and advising to educators, organizations, and other entities including the Congressional Black Mental Health Brain Trust. Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, past-president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and author of The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, which received the 2012 Grawemeyer Award in Education.
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