Sentences with phrase «by education historian»

The new book by education historian and activist Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, has debuted on The New York Times bestseller list in the non-fiction hardback category at No. 10.

An article on Wednesday about a surprising reversal by the education historian Diane Ravitch of almost every position she once took on American schooling misstated the number of books she has either written or edited since leaving government in 1993.

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

Rejecting the negative judgments implicit in Delumeau's notion of «Christianization,» the English historian John Bossy, himself by upbringing and education a Catholic, offered a rather less benign overarching analysis of the Catholic and Protestant reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The book is a brilliant presentation of the cognitive dissonance that results from a faulty education, especially for a historian who continues to be hounded by the models of harmony he found at Chartres Cathedral and in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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.

Funded by three successive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the project was able to develop class - tested materials and to enlist the support of recognized historians of religion.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

The US Department of Education, helmed by its new secretary, Betsy DeVos, yesterday misspelled the name of African American historian and civil - rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet.

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizedEducation, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizededucation advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

The economic historian, William Fischel, carefully documents how the development and spread of high school education in the United States was driven by localities seeking to compete for residents demanding a more rigorous education.

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...

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.

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-...]

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.

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.

Her graduate and postgraduate work has been supported by fellowships from the Spencer Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her writings on history, education and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History Asseducation and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History AssEducation Society and the Oral History Association.

NPE is a national group dedicated to fighting for local public education, and was founded just a few years ago by education luminaries like historian Diane Ravitch and teacher / writer Anthony Cody.

Since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, public education has been dominated by what the historian Raymond Callahan (1962) described as a «cult of efficiency,» an almost religious faith in the power of rational, «scientific» management to tame the complexities of life in schools (also see Rose, 2016; Mehta, 2015).

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.

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

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: «Our approach to the history curriculum has been supported by some of the country's most eminent historians, including Professor Niall Ferguson, Professor David Starkey, Antony Beevor and Dr Amanda Foreman.

Salon.com commentary by DIANE RAVITCH, a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Deeducation, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human DeEducation, and Human Development

Judith Kafka, an education historian and author of The History of «Zero Tolerance» in American Public Schooling, traces the phrase «zero tolerance» back to a U.S. Customs Service antidrug program from the 1980s, which was soon adopted by states and districts for school discipline.

She demonstrates her ignorance by showing such disrespect and outright contempt for the woman who is widely regarded as the preeminent education analyst and historian alive today.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

In 2010, Diane Ravitch, a renowned education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and schooeducation historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and schooEducation joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and school choice.

Purdue President Mitch Daniels is firing back after the Associated Press printed emails the former governor exchanged with education officials and staff about a textbook written by a liberal historian.

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.

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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.

For those who just want to look around, a new combat - free education mode allows players to explore Egypt through guided tours curated by historians.

The foundation was established by art historian William Arnett and his sons, and once they have dispersed their own collection to institutions, will focus on education and other artist support initiatives.

With speakers Elvira Dyangani Ose (Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths and Senior Curator at Creative Time) and Sepake Angiama (Head of Education at documenta 14) and Melanie Keen (Director of Iniva), moderated by George Shire (cultural theorist and historian of ideas).

The 160 - page catalogue includes 52 color images and essays by Stéphane Aquin, Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée des Beaux - Arts de Montréal, art historian David Anfam, Robert Lawlor, author of Scared Geometry: Philosophy & Practice, and Alicia G. Longwell, the Parrish Art Museum's Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education.

An art historian by education and a curator and critic by practice, Kuoni was previously director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and director of the Swiss Institute New York.

A few years ago, the former UK Education Minister (yes, you read that right) complained that historians and TV programs denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a «misbegotten shambles.»

Her venues are recognized by art historians, critics and tour guides as a haven for people who are serious in their interest in contemporary art, as well as those students wishing an in - depth education in this era.