SEATTLE, April, 2013 — Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she launched the School Redesign Network, the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. She spoke to Asia Society as part of the Global Cities Education Network. Here she shares the strengths of high-performing school systems, using case studies from Melbourne, Singapore, and Toronto. (2 min., 43 sec.)

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