Sentences with phrase «as education historian»

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A few historians of Christianity in Africa claim that some Africans from the colonial era to the present, professed Christianity in order to gain access to the benefits (such as education and health care) that accompanied the colonists and their religion.

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.

In Marsden's account, as in that of other historians, the most transformative force in higher education has been the political economy.

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.

In fact he has no training as a historian — his BA., from Oral Roberts University, is in math education.

Prominent education historian Diane Ravitch, for example, has gone so far as to allege that reformers are waging a «war on teachers» that threatens to undermine, rather than improve, teacher quality.

Education historian William Cutler explains in Parents and Schools that «educators and most school board members prefer to think of the parent - teacher association as an extension of the educational establishment, «an auxiliary to the public school,» as the Los Angeles County Board of Education put it in 1908.»

Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.

As a math historian, my research has led me to believe the only solution is a radical re-think of the foundations of western elementary mathematics education.

«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.

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 an historian, I was particularly pleased to see how the editor saw fit to include an historical review of the period since the 1950s, mentioning, among other things, Arthur Bestor's great book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools, the influence of Sputnik, and (a little later) the Great Society legislation, to underscore the national commitment to education for everyone.

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 gooAs 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 gooas a common good.

Stanford University's David Labaree, a respected historian of education, explains that, as far back as the early twentieth century, school reformers were pushing for efficiency and utility, while education professors wanted schools to help individual children blossom and develop a lifelong love of learning.

Although to say that the study of the Holocaust is a matter for historians might seem intuitively true, I have maintained at various workshops and meetings about Holocaust education (where I am often among the minority as an English professor) that the flexibility of the English / language arts (ELA) classroom well suits this complex topic.

Those on the left, such as notable historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, oppose Common Core for its corporate backing and believes that the guidelines essentially set up students to fail, providing another reason for parents to abandon public schools for private alternatives

Since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, public education has been dominated by what the historian Raymond Callahan (1962) described as a «cult of efficiency,» an almost religious faith in the power of rational, «scientific» management to tame the complexities of life in schools (also see Rose, 2016; Mehta, 2015).

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»

«Common enrollment is a big Walton idea to put charters on the same footing as public schools,» education historian and national treasure Diane Ravitch told me in an email.

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.

New York University education historian Diane Ravitch's blog went so far as to call this series a «suck up» to Trump and DeVos, «public television's effort to curry favor with the Trump administration.»

Originally referred to as «progressive,» they have been recycled in every generation under new names, as ably documented by education historian Diane Ravitch in her book, «Left Back.»

A well - respected education historian and author, she worked from 1991 to 1993 as assistant secretary in charge of research and improvement in the Education Department of President George H.W. Bush and served as counsel to then - Education Secretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education coeducation historian and author, she worked from 1991 to 1993 as assistant secretary in charge of research and improvement in the Education Department of President George H.W. Bush and served as counsel to then - Education Secretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education coEducation Department of President George H.W. Bush and served as counsel to then - Education Secretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education coEducation Secretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education coeducation committee).

From the perspective of these folks, most - notably the education historian - turned - sophist Diane Ravitch, the Newtown massacre serves as their chance to mount their usual criticisms of the school reform movement and advocate against public charter schools, as well as go beyond that.

Improbably, at the end of a four - decade - long career as the nation's most prominent education historian and a vocal advocate for education reform, Ravitch has emerged as reform's fiercest critic.

As early as 2010, many of the best minds in education policy — education historian Diane Ravitch, economist Richard Rothstein, and education researcher David Berliner — could already see that the Obama administration was going in the wrong direction on educatioAs early as 2010, many of the best minds in education policy — education historian Diane Ravitch, economist Richard Rothstein, and education researcher David Berliner — could already see that the Obama administration was going in the wrong direction on educatioas 2010, many of the best minds in education policy — education historian Diane Ravitch, economist Richard Rothstein, and education researcher David Berliner — could already see that the Obama administration was going in the wrong direction on education.

«What happens in New York always has repercussions elsewhere,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educatioeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educatioEducation who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educationeducation policy.

She demonstrates her ignorance by showing such disrespect and outright contempt for the woman who is widely regarded as the preeminent education analyst and historian alive today.

«In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit.»

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.

Parent triggers are presented as a grassroots way to give parents control — and have been romanticized in the film Won't Back Down — but Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. assistant secretary of education in the first Bush Administration, characterizes parent trigger laws as a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing them over to private corporations.»

What I noticed as an historian of education was his intellectual history of the culture - of - poverty arguments — a nice long chunk I would like most graduate students in the -LSB-...]

Historian Diane Ravitch criticized Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school policies.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

And his profile of once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch has done plenty to further remind all of us that she doesn't deserve to be taken seriously as either a traditionalist or a public intellectual.

«I've never seen so many cheating scandals as there have been in the last few years,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Billeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and BillEducation under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

For more than a decade, Dávila has configured distinctive aesthetics in his body of work, evidencing both his education as an architect as well as his character of self - taught historian.

The Galerie Rudolfinum education department is preparing a series of accompanying programs for the exhibition, which it will offer as interpretative information from the mouth of curators and art historians, as well as testimonies from the artists themselves.

A few years ago, the former UK Education Minister (yes, you read that right) complained that historians and TV programs denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a «misbegotten shambles.»

Students from diverse backgrounds are provided the opportunity to participate in a dynamic and progressive education, participating in powerful programs in fine arts, culinary arts, garden science, theatre, music and sports, which supplement their daily experience as writers, scientists, mathematicians, poets and historians.

Her venues are recognized by art historians, critics and tour guides as a haven for people who are serious in their interest in contemporary art, as well as those students wishing an in - depth education in this era.

Her higher education reflects her interests and she developed into both an artist and an art historian, missing one discipline when not active as the other.