Linda Darling-Hammond is providing great leadership to guide transformation of California’s schools from the industrial to modern age. Below is a link where she offers a road map to equal education for all:

• How do we give all children an equal shot at a great education?
• What’s the best way—and the best time—to evaluate teachers?
• Has race been replaced by income inequality as a major stumbling block to equal learning?
• Why do students from small countries keep outpacing U.S. students on competitive tests?

To read the entire interview—and see video of more Linda Darling-Hammond insights—click here.

In the interview, Linda Darling-Hammond comments that schools should be designed in ways that allow for there to be “caring” side by side with rigorous expectations and curriculum and high quality teaching for kids to want to do that hard work. You need love to learn.” This thought reminded me of the mission statement of King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools in San Diego: “We Seek Excellence and Equality in Education from the Foundation of Love.” You know you are in a special place when you visit a school that understands the importance of providing both rigorous curriculum and care for all students.