Sentences with phrase «education historian at»

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

Ravitch is an education historian at New York University.

«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.

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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.»

In fact he had received the kind of philosophical education at Oxford that enabled him, like John Henry Newman before him, to resist the two opposed temptations that the historian of science Richard Olson has labeled «science deified» and «science defied.»

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.

At the conference I saw Dartmouth economic historian, William Fischel, present a paper on Amish education, extending the work from his great book, Making the Grade, which I have reviewed in Educateducation, extending the work from his great book, Making the Grade, which I have reviewed in EducationEducation Next.

A long antagonism with education historian Diane Ravitch (whose unremitting opposition to Klein clearly did him political damage) is described with an unusually detailed personal account that avoids sentimentalizing, yet hints at vulnerability.

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.

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.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

Ravitch, a much - published education historian and former top official at the U.S. Department of Education, now firmly rejects her previously ardent support for standards, testing, and business principles applied to eeducation historian and former top official at the U.S. Department of Education, now firmly rejects her previously ardent support for standards, testing, and business principles applied to eEducation, now firmly rejects her previously ardent support for standards, testing, and business principles applied to educationeducation.

She is an education historian, however, and historians are supposed to care about facts — supposed to, at least.

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.

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

Although to say that the study of the Holocaust is a matter for historians might seem intuitively true, I have maintained at various workshops and meetings about Holocaust education (where I am often among the minority as an English professor) that the flexibility of the English / language arts (ELA) classroom well suits this complex topic.

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.

Hard hitting words from historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, who addressed hundreds of educators, policy makers and advocates today at the 2014 Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh.

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.

Education historian Diane Ravitch says, «It appears that [the students at Rocketship] are being trained to work on an assembly line.

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.

That's an attitude that Fariña seemed to share when she appeared with Diane Ravitch, the education historian who has fiercely criticized charter schools, at a Brooklyn school earlier this month.

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

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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.

Improbably, at the end of a four - decade - long career as the nation's most prominent education historian and a vocal advocate for education reform, Ravitch has emerged as reform's fiercest critic.

«This wasn't a sustainable life, in terms of my health and my marriage,» she tells Brill, who concludes that he agrees (at least in part) with education historian and charter school critic Diane Ravitch.

Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of eEducation at New York University and a historian of educationeducation.

Education historian Diane Ravitch and author of the best selling book, «Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools» traces the accountability movement back to 1983 when «A Nation at Risk» was published.

That Polis considers himself a fellow - traveler of Rhee explains why he called Ravitch, a plain - spoken grandma, education historian and former senior official at the Department of Education under two presidents, is an «evil womaeducation historian and former senior official at the Department of Education under two presidents, is an «evil womaEducation under two presidents, is an «evil woman.»

«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.

Diane Ravitch is a historian of education and a professor at NYU.

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.

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.

There's Richard Rothstein at the Economic Policy Institute, Washington Post columnist Valerie Strauss (whose lending of pages to every crackpot opinion borders on the promiscuous), Pedro Noguera writing for The Nation, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch's appearances on The Daily Show and in The Wall Street Journal.

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).

Simon Wilson is an author, art historian and former Head of Education and Curator of Interpretation at Tate.

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.

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.