User talk:Barbaramckenna

Barbara McKenna
Communications Director
Stanford University
Center for Teacher Education and School Reform

This is also me: 171.64.184.235

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Linda Darling-Hammond

I want to thank you for contributing so much to Linda Darling-Hammond. That said, I feel that you have many times removed information which is valuable, well sourced, written with a NPOV, and follows all wikipedia guidelines that I am aware of.

For example: Every news article that I have read about Prof. Darling-Hammond calls her a critic of Teach for America. The press usually goes further, calling her a "long-time critic," "the toughest critic," "among the first and most prominent critics," "no fan of Teach for America."

Therefore, I believe it is totally reasonable for the wikipedia entry to call her a critic of TFA.

She has been called a "leading critic of No Child Left Behind," and she has endorsed more federal funding for poor students and schools. My personal feelings don't matter, but if you are curious, I feel that many of Prof. Darling-Hammond's critiques have been good ones, even if I personally feel she has emphasized the negative too much when it comes to TFA.

I do not believe there is any justification for removing this information. If you feel that that the wikipedia article and the sources used give an incomplete picture of Prof. Darling-Hammond I invite you to add additional text and references, but I ask you not to remove perfectly fair contributions that others have made. --RedHouse18 22:54, 14 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RedHouse18 (talk • contribs)