Professor to join education board

From: The San Francisco Chronicle
Stanford education Professor Linda Darling-Hammond will join the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in March. The association is a national voluntary association of higher education institutions and other organizations dedicated to quality education for teachers. Darling-Hammond, considered a leader in the field of education, launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network at Stanford and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She has also worked at Columbia University, where she was the founding executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a panel that produced an influential 1996 report