Sentences with phrase «as assistant secretary of education»

The release of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, caused quite a stir in the education community because in it Ravitch does an about - face, criticizing the education policies she had fully supported over the years, including when she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993.

As an assistant secretary of education, she played a pivotal role in policy and management issues affecting preK, elementary, and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education and oversaw 86 programs with a portfolio of almost 26 billion dollars.

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-...]

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.

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

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

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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.

WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee this month grilled Thomas W. Payzant, President Clinton's choice to be assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, about his treatment of the Boy Scouts and other controversies during his 20 - year career as a school superintendent.

Thousands of political appointments — including about 150 in the Department of Education, from the secretary down to a bevy of confidential assistants — were on hold as well.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

With a career forged in educational grantmaking, state education policy, and academe, Kent McGuire seems to have spent a lifetime preparing for his new role as assistant secretary of the Department of Education's office of educational research and impeducation policy, and academe, Kent McGuire seems to have spent a lifetime preparing for his new role as assistant secretary of the Department of Education's office of educational research and impEducation's office of educational research and improvement.

The White House said President Bush plans to designate James F. Manning as the Department of Education's acting assistant secretary for postsecondary eEducation's acting assistant secretary for postsecondary educationeducation.

In 1995, he served as Under Secretary of Education and Special Assistant to the Governor for Charter Schools.

He has also served as assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education of the U.S. Department of Education in the Clinton adminieducation of the U.S. Department of Education in the Clinton adminiEducation in the Clinton administration.

After leaving GLSEN in 2009, Jennings served as an assistant deputy secretary in the U.S. Department of Education until 2011.

He has served, inter alia, as a Professor of Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, Counsel to the U.S. ambassador to India, Legislative Director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement.

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.

He has also served as President Clinton's White House Associate Director for Educational Policy, Senior Policy Advisor on Education to Vice President Gore, and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley.

Andy served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and at The White House Domestic Policy Council and has worked for Congress and the Maryland state legislature.

Payzant returned to Boston by way of Washington, D.C., where he had a two - year stint as an assistant secretary in Bill Clinton's Department of Education, helping to write and then to persuade Congress to pass the Improving America's Schools Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization that was the immediate predecessor of the No Child Left Behind Act.

He recently served as assistant secretary for communications and outreach in the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama Administration's first term.

Seated among the HAA audience during Spence's speech was Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary at the Department of Education and a 1985 graduate of Harvard College, who told an anecdote of his 10th Harvard reunion when he encountered a classmate who had achieved success in the corporate world but was dismayed that Jennings, a fellow Ivy League graduate, had spent the past decade as a teacher.

Emma Brown of the Washington Post reports that Candice E. Jackson will serve as acting assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education.

I worked at the White House and served as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education.

Holly also served as the Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs and Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Education.

In order to have this condition removed, IDOE most address all «next steps» in the monitoring report and submit evidence that it has done so as part of its extension request,» U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary Deborah Delisle said in a letter to State Superintendent Glenda Ritz.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

He also served as senior vice president at MDRC, Inc., and as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

She also was the U.S. Department of Education's regional representative in Texas for Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, and she served as Special Assistant in the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs under Secretary Rod Paige.

She also served as a special assistant to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, helping shape administration policy across a range of issues.

Prior to joining Dutko, she was at the U.S. Department of Education, where she served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, as well as Managing Director of Foundations, External Affairs, and Regional Services in the Office of Communications and Outreach.

«We encourage you to continue to engage in consultation with stakeholders, including representatives from the Governor's office, as you develop and implement your State plan,» wrote Jason Botel, principal deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Education.

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.

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

He previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and Attorney and Policy Advisor in the Clinton White House where he worked on the President's Race Initiative on education and civil rightEducation and Attorney and Policy Advisor in the Clinton White House where he worked on the President's Race Initiative on education and civil righteducation and civil rights issues.

Lamar Alexander, the secretary of education, invited her to serve as assistant secretary for educational research.

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 cosecretary 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 coSecretary Lamar Alexander (who is now the chairman of the Senate education coeducation committee).

It seems that New York state's education commissioner — John King — recently resigned, thanks to a new job working as a top assistant directly under US Secretary of Education Arneducation commissioner — John King — recently resigned, thanks to a new job working as a top assistant directly under US Secretary of Education ArnEducation Arne Duncan.

«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.

From 1991 to 1993, she worked 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 Asecretary 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 ASecretary Lamar Alexander.

Former United States Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch weighed in on Cathie Black's resignation as chancellor of the New York City schools, saying the turmoil in New York should serve as an example for education reformers eEducation Diane Ravitch weighed in on Cathie Black's resignation as chancellor of the New York City schools, saying the turmoil in New York should serve as an example for education reformers eeducation reformers elsewhere.

Prior to her tenure at the Foundation for Child Development, Dr. Jones served as a Senior Advisor on Early Learning to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and as the country's first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning in the U.S. Department of Education.

Delisle explains that one of her proudest accomplishments in her previous role as U.S. assistant secretary of education was bringing the voice of educators into policy conversations.

He served as director of the education initiative of The Business Roundtable and as assistant secretary for educational research and improvement in the U.S. Department of Eeducation initiative of The Business Roundtable and as assistant secretary for educational research and improvement in the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

In 2009, she joined former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary.

In 2009, she joined former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as special assistant in the Office of the Secretary.

Deborah Delisle is Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education and serves as principal adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Education on all matters related to early learning and elementary and secondary eEducation and serves as principal adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Education on all matters related to early learning and elementary and secondary eEducation on all matters related to early learning and elementary and secondary educationeducation.

The state made its announcement shortly after Michael Williams, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President George H.W. Bush, took over the reins as the state's new commissioner of education.