Darling-Hammond: US out of step with successful nations

Linda Darling-Hammond (whom I've taken to thinking of as the Shadow Secretary of Education) posted a thoughtful piece reflecting on the international education summit held last week in New York. You can also find it (with introduction) on the Daily Kos.

The first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in New York City, showed perhaps more clearly than ever that the United States has been pursuing an approach to teaching almost diametrically opposed to that pursued by the highest-achieving nations.  

Well worth reading.