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Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning answers an urgent call for teachers who educate children from diverse backgrounds to meet the demands of a changing world. Linda Darling-Hammond and Jeannie Oakes and their colleagues examine what this means for teacher preparation and showcase the work of programs that are educating for deeper learning, equity, and social justice. The book depicts transformative forms of teaching and teacher preparation that honor and expand all students' abilities, knowledges, and experiences, and reaffirm the promise of educating for a better world.

"Darling-Hammond and Oakes provide teacher educators with the twin pillars of rigorous theory and relevant practice. This will be a treasure trove we will plumb for years to come."
--Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"For educators who seek to reduce disparities in achievement and life outcomes, Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning will be an invaluable resource."
--Pedro A. Noguera, distinguished professor of education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

"Linda Darling-Hammond and Jeannie Oakes are two of the nation's foremost authorities on the art of effective teaching. Their book is an excellent resource to help teachers meet the increasing demands of preparing students for our complex and changing world."
--Richard W. Riley, former US Secretary of Education and former governor of South Carolina

"This volume makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of what is entailed in preparing generative teachers. The cases of teacher training programs are informative in their range of diversity yet embodying a core set of seminal principles, including a commitment to social justice."
--Carol D. Lee, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles. With Steven K. Wojcikiewicz, Maria E. Hyler, Roneeta Guha, Anne Podolsky, Tara Kini, Channa M. Cook-Harvey, Charmaine N. Jackson Mercer, and Akeelah Harrell.

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