Obama education adviser: “21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.”

From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond:

21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.

…Also key is the creation of networks that allow teachers, leaders, schools and districts to learn from one another.

…Although it would be romantic to assume that massive change can come exclusively from school-to-school networking, the power of learning systems has proven to be stronger than the power of mandates to transform schools.

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