 She has suggested that, in addition to these major breakthroughs, “We badly need a national policy that enables schools to meet the intellectual demands of the twenty-first century (and) we need to pay off the educational debt to disadvantaged students that has accrued over centuries of unequal access to quality education.” She has suggested that federal spending on education is inadequate to achieve the goals of the law.Though Darling-Hammond has acknowledged that Teach For America has brought new talent into the teaching profession, she is better known as a prominent critic of the program.In the spring of 2005, a study published by Stanford researchers including Darling-Hammond, concluded that teachers in Houston who entered without completing training and certification, including Teach For America teachers, were initially less effective than traditionally credentialed teachers and left the teaching profession at higher rates.