Sentences with phrase «nyu education historian»

DFER's new strategy «gives them protection for their agenda if the Senate goes Democratic without their help,» said Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and frequent critic of the charter movement.

«This is a land grab, a power grab,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian who endorsed Mr. de Blasio during his campaign.

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.

It was no surprise when, this weekend, education historian and vehement Common Core - opponent Diane Ravitch railed against the standards and assessments — again — this time in a New York Times op - ed.

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.»

In this forum, lead author of Learning from No Child Left Behind, EdisonLearning's John Chubb, and education historian and task force member Diane Ravitch, who declined to sign the recommendations, weigh in on the future of the law.

Despite the obvious new age mood of the sessions, some of the discussion had a déjà vu quality to it, brought home by education historian David Cohen, the University of Michigan professor with long gray hair and backpack, who bemoaned the lack of a national curriculum and praised the efforts of the common core crowd.

A long antagonism with education historian Diane Ravitch (whose unremitting opposition to Klein clearly did him political damage) is described with an unusually detailed personal account that avoids sentimentalizing, yet hints at vulnerability.

No obscure figure, Kilpatrick was «the most influential teacher in the nation's leading college of education,» spending nearly 30 years on the faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College, notes education historian Diane Ravitch.

The amount of funding provided by esea was small at first — around 2 or 3 percent of a district's budget, according to education historian and former Ed School dean Patricia Albjerg Graham — but too large for states to pass up.

Ravitch, a much - published education historian and former top official at the U.S. Department of Education, now firmly rejects her previously ardent support for standards, testing, and business principles applied to education.

She is an education historian, however, and historians are supposed to care about facts — supposed to, at least.

This weekend, education historian and Common Core - opponent Diane Ravitch railed against the standards and assessments in a New York Times op - ed.

The dispute between the reports» authors — which flared into the open on a national network news program Sept. 6 — pitted Lynne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, against Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian, and Chester E. Finn Jr., an assistant secretary of education.

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.

Education historian Diane Ravitch notes that New York City's Catholic clergy moved to protect children from «Protestant propaganda» by discouraging them from attending the city's public schools.

Diane Ravitch is a former education historian and federal education official who in recent years...

Oeri sources said last week that the education historian Diane Ravitch was slated to be Mr. Cross's successor.

National education historian, Diane Ravitch, has also applauded the action of Garfield teachers, sending the teachers a letter of support and dedicating a statement on her blog to their announcement.

After all, he said, he was introducing the education historian and anti-corporate reform activist Diane Ravitch.

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 Institute.

Recently, education historian Diane Ravitch called for congressional investigation of Bill Gates and his out - sized and undemocratic role in the takeover of public education.

«I can't remember the last time anyone in a leadership position said anything about desegregation,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian at New York University.

«Ultimately, the big issue comes down to how important this is to the people in charge,» Dr. Ravitch, the education historian, said.

This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website.

«The mandates that come with [Race To The Top] will cost districts more than whatever money it brings to the district,» blogs education historian Diane Ravitch.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

And in a comment on Monday, public education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch combined Wozniak's critique with Warren's, denouncing DeVos» lack of «experience or qualificiations» and saying the heiress» «only plan is to weaken and destroy» U.S. public schools.

Education historian and author Diane Ravitch writes, «Since Michigan embraced the DeVos family's ideas about choice, Michigan has steadily declined on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.»

If America has a leading education historian, Ravitch, an education professor at New York University, has long had a claim on the title.

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.

Education historian Larry Cuban describes how the pendulum has swung back and forth — and how educators have adapted and compromised along the way.

«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.

And education historian Diane Ravitch predicted that «many will leave teaching, discouraged by the loss of their professional autonomy.»

A Colorado congressman tweeted last year that Diane Ravitch, an education historian and de facto leader of public school activists, was an «evil woman.»

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 will hold.

Education historian Diane Ravitch called Daniels a «crybaby» whose claims lacked evidence.

Kicking off each of these days will be a keynote speech — one from 1960s relic Jonathan Kozol and the other from discredited education historian Diane Ravitch.

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.»

Education historian Diane Ravitch says, «It appears that [the students at Rocketship] are being trained to work on an assembly line.

«This is a land grab, a power grab,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian who endorsed Mr. de Blasio during his campaign.

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.»

Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch said that language was unacceptable and that, among other things, the Democrats needed to make a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools.

Noted education historian Diane Ravitch has long advocated for national standards but announced on her blog last year that she opposed the Common Core effort.

Ravitch is an education historian at New York University.

Anybody reading much of the commentary written on education policy could be forgiven for thinking that education historian Diane Ravitch is somehow the Wizardess of Ed, the woman behind the curtain secretly pulling the strings.

On the lunatic end of the spectrum we have teacher union apologist Diane Ravitch, the formerly venerable education historian, who took up residence in the land of Bizarro several years ago.

Over the past few years, the once - respectable education historian has discredited herself with factual inaccuracies and and logical misfires in her sophistry.

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 Teachers.»

The other four people who will be featured in future interviews are 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; 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 Institute.