Sentences with phrase «education historian david»

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.

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At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher 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.

David Tyack, preeminent historian of American education, died November 1, 2016 at his home in Stanford, California.

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.

As early as 2010, many of the best minds in education policy — education historian Diane Ravitch, economist Richard Rothstein, and education researcher David Berliner — could already see that the Obama administration was going in the wrong direction on education.

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.

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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