Sentences with phrase «noted education historian»
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.
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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.
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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.
Conference offers much more: The conference programme has by now been enriched with an attendance of Northern Ireland Minister for Education John O'Dowd, the key - note speeches from several prominent historians, including prof. Tony Gallagher (Queens University), Eamon Phoenix (Stanmillis College), Philip Orr (Author of several books and Historian).
Calling for Registrations, Workshop Proposals & Offers Exciting Programme with Key Note Speeches by Prominent Historians, Minister For Education, Partnerships across Northern Ireland & Europe and many more...
23rd EUROCLIO Annual Conference «Remembering the Difficult Past through History and Heritage Education» Calling for Registrations, Workshop Proposals & Offers Exciting Programme with Key Note Speeches by Prominent Historians, Minister For Education, Partnerships across Northern Ireland & Europe and many more... 19 - 24 March 2016, Belfast Conference offers much more: The conference -LSB-...]
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.
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.
The report is recommended by education historian and school privatization opponent Diane Ravitch, who notes that the report «also includes an analysis of flaws in existing oversight, recommendations for reform, and an appendix of instances of fraud and abuse from 1997 through 2017.»
Other plans include a special 50th anniversary edition of the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education in Fall, 2015 that will examine the AAVMC's 50 - year body of work from a more scholarly perspective, and the publication of a history book by noted veterinary medical historian and former Cornell Dean Dr. Don Smith.