Sentences with phrase «us assistant secretary of education»

The program, an EdTech conference, is headlined by Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and Devin Schain, coordinator of the Capital Exchange.

At 1:15 p.m., the National Institute for Early Education Research releases its annual «State of Preschool Report» for the 2014 - 15 school year, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to speak, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Early Learning Dr Libby Doggett, AFT President Randi Weingarten and others, Sugar Hill Museum Preschool, 898 St. Nicholas Ave., Manhattan.

«We've lost public trust on why we test, and so we need to make sure we can tell the public why,» said Johnson, a former acting assistant secretary of education in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Ravitch was an assistant secretary of education from 1991 to 1993 in the George H.W. Bush administration.

Quaintance was serving as acting president at Sullivan and previously was assistant secretary of education for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Susan Sclafani, the Bush Administration?s assistant secretary of education for adult and vocational education, displayed the Bush Administration?s priorities in education and detailed several new initiatives in the vocational training arena, including greater involvement by the private sector.

Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor for K — 12 education reform at the Walton Family Foundation and former U.S. assistant secretary of education for policy.

According to Peterkin, USP alums include 33 superintendents, 22 deputy superintendents, 26 assistant of area superintendents, 15 education directors, numerous principals, several faculty at education schools, one state Board of Education member, and one deputy assistant secretary of education.

About the Author Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor for K - 12 education reform at the Walton Family Foundation and former U.S. assistant secretary of education for policy.

A former U.S. assistant secretary of education, she's now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

He was recommended to then - AEI president Chris DeMuth by former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Chester Finn, M.A.T.» 67, Ed.D.» 70.

Andy Smarick, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of education, is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

«To move from being an assistant principal to administering a $ 5 - billion program is a huge jump,» said Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, during a confirmation hearing on three recent nominations, including that of Ms. Dorsett, to be assistant secretaries of education.

And though Hacker and Dreifus, a former Queens College political science professor (and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books) and a veteran science reporter and editor, respectively, turn in what appears to be a useful essay about the challenges ahead for the CCSS, Peter Cunningham, a former assistant secretary of education, says that Hacker and Dreifus themselves «contribute greatly to the confusion and misinformation surrounding the issue of learning standards.»

Although I agree with U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Diane S. Ravitch's statement that «this has been 20 years of remarkable change» for women («National Groups Promise Steps To Combat Inequities for Girls,» Feb. 19, 1992), I can not agree with her assertion that gender - equity programs are no longer needed.

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.

«Our feeling is that charter schools can really engage parents in their children's learning, because parents make an active choice - especially when there aren't that many good choices available,» said Jim Shelton, an assistant secretary of education, in a recent phone interview.

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 Education.

Williamson M. Evers is a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development.

Ravitch, who served as the Assistant Secretary of Education under President George H.W. Bush, famously about education reform.

For more, we speak to former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch, Center for Media and Democracy Executive Director Lisa Graves, and elected member of the Detroit Board of Education Tawanna Simpson.

The leader of this rear - guard action is Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who was an assistant secretary of education in the administration of George H.W. Bush.

The first of these models was advanced by Chester «Checker» Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration.

Diane Ravitch served as assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush.

The 25 - year experiment with charter schools has been a failure, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said this week at the annual conference of the Network for Public Education.

Internally, the effort was supported by, among others, assistant to the president (and future Catholic - schools benefactor) Peter Flanigan and a young Moynihan aide (and future U.S. assistant secretary of education), Chester Finn.

, to be published this week by Harper and Row Publishers Inc., was written by Diane Ravitch, adjunct professor of history and education at Columbia University's Teachers» College, and Chester E. Finn Jr., assistant secretary of education for educational research and improvement.

He was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for policy, from 2007 to 2009.

Only an assistant secretary of education signed the equity DCL.

In her Nov. 22 letter (starts on page 6), Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote, «The requirements to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to identify schools for improvement, corrective action and restructuring have not been waived, and any State laws or regulations, including those related to AYP or school improvement status, are not affected by the waivers granted to your district.»

-- Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education and New York Times bestselling author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

-- Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education; author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

«The depth of discouragement among educators in the trenches is at an all - time high and can not be overstated,» said former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch in a recent BAM Radio interview.

The book was a particularly damning indictment because Ravitch was Pres. George H. W. Bush's assistant secretary of education and one of the architects of NCLB.

As assistant secretary of education and counselor to U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991 - 1993, Ravitch led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards.

Chester E. Finn Jr., a White House aide from 1969 to 1970 and assistant secretary of education from 1985 to 1988, is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

In the case of Diane Ravitch, who started her career as an Assistant Secretary of Education in George H.W. Bush's administration and is finishing it up as a dyed - in - the - wool teachers union shill, the American Federation of Teachers and Ravitch have an unsurprising love -LSB-...]

But as former Bush administration Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch points out, a school does not belong to 51 percent of the parents who happen to have students attending it at one specific point in time.

He served as U. S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement, and counselor to the secretary, from 1985 to 1988.

* Carmel Martin, former assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the Department of Education, and the current executive vice president at the Center for American Progress.

From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of George H.W. Bush.

LA School Report has learned a little of the backstory behind a recent election - focused post that was published on former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch's blog.

«Many excellent teachers will get poor ratings, and many mediocre teachers (who are good at drilling) will get high scores,» Diane Ravitch, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and fierce critic of tying teacher pay to student test scores, wrote in an email to The Miami Herald.

Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, has in the past supported standardized testing, as well as charter schools.

Sentance told board members he and other state education staffers held a phone conference last week with Acting Assistant Secretary of Education, Jason Botel, and other federal education officials to ask for permission to stop using the ACT Aspire.

Chester Finn, Jr., President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative think tank, and a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, understands why many districts stick with the testing model but thinks policies need to be flexible.

Before joining ETS, Dr. Robinson was Assistant Secretary of Education with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (now the Institute of Education Sciences).

20 Assistant Secretary of Education Chester Finn attacked the charter school proposal, saying it suggested that we did not already know what works in education.21

In short, Parent Trigger laws are a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing it over to private corporations,» according to Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush Administration.