Sentences with phrase «american education historian»

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Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of academic freedom had relatively little place in American higher education prior to this century.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The US Department of Education, helmed by its new secretary, Betsy DeVos, yesterday misspelled the name of African American historian and civil - rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet.

Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education.

«He was a marvelous raconteur, he had a wonderful sense of humor, and he could charm the socks off you,» recalls Patricia Albjerg Graham, a historian of American education and dean of the Ed School from 1982 to 1991.

In her 2003 book The Science Education of American Girls, historian Kim Tolley examines the evolution of girls» scientific interests from the antebellum era through the 20th century.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

A leading historian of American education, Graham served as dean of the Ed School from 1982 through 1991.

These small numbers continued through World War I, when only about 5 percent of American children went to high school and eighth grade was the culmination, says education historian and former dean Patricia Albjerg Graham.

He served as co-PI and advisor in several National Science Foundation - funded professional development research projects, on the National Education Advisory Board for the French & Indian War 250th Anniversary Commemoration, and on the Organization of American Historians - Advanced Placement Joint Advisory Board on Teaching the U.S. History Survey.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Eeducation under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Eeducation, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining EducationEducation.

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

David Tyack, preeminent historian of American education, died November 1, 2016 at his home in Stanford, California.

The six are Andy Hargreaves, author and Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation research at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

Her graduate and postgraduate work has been supported by fellowships from the Spencer Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her writings on history, education and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History Asseducation and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History AssEducation Society and the Oral History Association.

Some observers, including education historian Diane Ravitch, noted that American students have never been top performers on international tests dating back to the 1960s, but that has not prevented the country from becoming one of the most successful and innovative in the world.

Ravitch was elected to membership in the National Academy of Education (1979), the Society of American Historians (1984), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985); she also was named Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2002).

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort wEducation Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort weducation historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

Posted on November 18, 2016 · After months of protests from historians, teachers and lawmakers, the Texas State Board of Education this morning unanimously rejected a controversial Mexican - American studies textbook that would have been used in public schools

Picturing Modern America, 1880 - 1920: Historical Thinking Exercises for Middle and High School Students (http://cct2.edc.org/PMA; Center for Children and Technology, & Education Development Center), features primary sources from the American Memory collection from the Library of Congress to help students «practice history the way historians do.»

Diane Ravitch, and author and historian of American education and a best - selling author, writes in In these Times that DeVos and Prince families «have contributed generously to anti-gay and anti-labor causes over the years, but Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, have shown a special passion for privatizing public education.»

Some analysts are now calling for teachers» colleges to follow the Emporia State model — «to give them a lot of practical experience so they're not shocked when they come into the classroom,» says Diane Ravitch, the education historian, who is working on a book entitled «Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachereducation historian, who is working on a book entitled «Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching TeacherEducation: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers.»

Judith Kafka, an education historian and author of The History of «Zero Tolerance» in American Public Schooling, traces the phrase «zero tolerance» back to a U.S. Customs Service antidrug program from the 1980s, which was soon adopted by states and districts for school discipline.

That is not surprising, said Diane Ravitch, an education historian and the author of «The Death and Life of the Great American School System.»

An article on Wednesday about a surprising reversal by the education historian Diane Ravitch of almost every position she once took on American schooling misstated the number of books she has either written or edited since leaving government in 1993.

Throughout the 20th century the «struggle for the American curriculum,» as one education historian called it, ebbed and flowed for decades as debates raged over the very purpose of schooling — whether to prepare an engaged citizenry, develop a competitive workforce, or ensure an educated populace capable of reaching its intellectual potential.

Diane Ravitch, the education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration's Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow - motion about - face on almost every stand she once took on American seducation historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration's Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow - motion about - face on almost every stand she once took on American sEducation Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow - motion about - face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling.

Diane Ravitch, historian of American education and author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

In 2010, Diane Ravitch, a renowned education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and schooeducation historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and schooEducation joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and school choice.

He is the author or editor of eight books The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900 - 1940 (1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians; The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction (2008); Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (2003, co-edited with Steven Conn); Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (2003, co-edited with Randall Mason); The Future of Higher Education (2011, with Dan Clawson); Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (2011, co-edited with Tim Mennell); Campus Guide to the University of Massachusetts (2013, with Marla Miller); and Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina (2013).