Sentences with phrase «university education historian»

«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 Bill Clinton.

«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 education policy.

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.»

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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 University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

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.

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.

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.

Gareth Davies, a historian at Oxford University, brings care and precision to his study of the process that produced federal education legislation and regulation in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1980s.

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).

The University of Michigan's Maris Vinovskis is undoubtedly the most diligent, thorough, and prolific historian of education goings - on in Washington over the past quarter century, particularly when it comes to standards, assessments, and compensatory programs.

Most modern college presidents adhere to the school of thought that says institutions should only take a stance on public issues that could impact the core mission of the university, says Julie Reuben, a historian at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

Ravitch is an education historian at New York University.

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 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; 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; 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; 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; 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.

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Education historian and university professor Diane Ravitch wrote at her personal blogsite, «In order to explain a point of view, one must make the effort to hear the voices of critics without caricaturing them.

She contacted Lawrence Cremin, the esteemed education historian at Teachers College, Columbia University, and floated the idea of writing one herself.

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«First she angered the Marxist historians, and later the fans of progressive education and the multiculturalists,» said Jeffrey E. Mirel, a professor of education and history at the University of Michigan.

It's a model perhaps best exemplified by Diane Ravitch — education historian and research professor at New York University and former presidential appointee — who now mounts attacks on mainstream educational reform through a well - read blog and popular books.

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).

David Ebitz, an art historian and former associate professor of art at the University of Maine, has been appointed head of the J. Paul Getty Museum's department of education and academic affairs.

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