Sentences with phrase «education journalists in»

The vast majority of education journalists in the US are white women, according to a recent Education Writers Association survey.

He is, quite simply, the leading education journalist in America.»

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A journalist by training, Chao got his education both from Fudan University in Shanghai and from the University of Oklahoma.

Name: Parker Conrad Age: 34 Residence: San Francisco Education: Harvard University, bachelor's in chemistry, 2003 Previous jobs: President and co-founder, SigFig; co-CEO and co-founder, Wikinvest; journalist for the Arkansas Democrat - Gazette Family: Wife, Alexandra; Dog, Ajax Important facts: He's a testicular cancer survivor, and he's read the Affordable Care Act in its entirety

David received his Master of Arts from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, after receiving a Lilly Grant for religious education for journalist.

She had almost no formal education, but she knew how to write, and she kept a journal, which was found by a journalist and published in the late 1950s.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

In an eerie foreshadowing of today's debates over character education, journalists warned that the family could not do it alone: the schools had to help.

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

In addition, masterclasses led by Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) will be offered on topics such as «The language of wine: a Systematic Approach to Tasting» by Jude Mullins, DipWSET — International Development Director, «A world of Sherry» by Jon Chan, WSET Educator, Wine Language as well as an «Austrian Wine Seminar» by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate led by Stephan Reinhardt, a German journalist specializing in wine (his book «The Finest Wines of Germany» was selected as «Best international wine book of the year 2013» by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers» AwardIn addition, masterclasses led by Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) will be offered on topics such as «The language of wine: a Systematic Approach to Tasting» by Jude Mullins, DipWSET — International Development Director, «A world of Sherry» by Jon Chan, WSET Educator, Wine Language as well as an «Austrian Wine Seminar» by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate led by Stephan Reinhardt, a German journalist specializing in wine (his book «The Finest Wines of Germany» was selected as «Best international wine book of the year 2013» by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers» Awardin wine (his book «The Finest Wines of Germany» was selected as «Best international wine book of the year 2013» by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers» Award).

As a journalist, I was usually there to write about some so - called «development» in education — a new building, a revamped curriculum, or inventive method of teaching — yet it increasingly seemed to me that the behaviour and attitudes of pupils were too often sabotaging the very things designed to help them.

«I'm increasingly struck by the sense that lots of parents, educators and administrators feel that there is something missing in education — with low - income kids in particular — but really with kids from every background,» says the 45 - year - old author and journalist, coddling his herbal tea in an East Village café on a wintry New York morning.

Education journalist Paul Tough explores this science and its application in the American classroom in «How Children Succeed.»

Clinical Psychologist (USA) Dr Brooke Magnanti Feona Attwood, Professor of Media & Communication at Middlesex University Martin Barker, Emeritus Professor at University of Aberystwyth Jessica Ringrose, Professor, Sociology of Gender and Education, UCL Institute of Education Ronete Cohen MA, Psychologist Dr Meg John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Kath Albury, Associate Professor, UNSW Australia Myles Jackman, specialist in obscenity law Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University Justin Hancock, youth worker and sex educator Ian Dunt, Editor in Chief, Politics.co.uk Ally Fogg, Journalist Dr Emily Cooper, Northumbria University Gareth May, Journalist Dr Kate Egan, Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University Dr Ann Luce, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University John Mercer, Reader in Gender and Sexuality, Birmingham City University Dr. William Proctor, Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication, Bournemouth University Dr Jude Roberts, Teaching Fellow, University of Surrey Dr Debra Ferreday, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University Jane Fae, author of «Taming the beast» a review of law / regulation governing online pornography Michael Marshall, Vice President, Merseyside Skeptics Society Martin Robbins, Journalist Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn (University of Western Australia) Dr Lucy Neville, Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University Alix Fox, Journalist and Sex Educator Dr Mark McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University Chris Ashford, Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University Diane Duke, CEO Free Speech Coalition (USA) Dr Steve Jones, Senior Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University Dr Johnny Walker, Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University

Other media outfits in the coalition are the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) as well as the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE).

According INEC's Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Oluwole Osaze - Uzzi, while relating with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, he stated that the commission had not been briefed on the report by anybody on it.

Journalists were, like all other professions, encouraged to see their occupation as one of many forms of service to the nation, to participate actively in the education and inculcation of the Italian people.

The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Femi Agagu, stated this while speaking with journalists on Thursday on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Akure, the state capital.

Speaking to journalists on the modalities put in place to prevent further abduction of students from schools, the Borno State Commissioner of Education, Inuwa Kubo, said all female boarding schools except those in Maiduguri and Biu, had been closed.

In the event that a Council member (s) are contacted by a member (s) of the media external to the University (journalists, bloggers, etc...) to solicit opinions, it is highly recommended that the member consult with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and / or the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education about how to respond.

Based on the journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her sentimental education at the hand of an older charmer and scripted by Nick Hornby, this soft - edged exercise in nostalgia is worth seeing for its rich array of sharply drawn characters led by Carey Mulligan, who received a deserved Oscar nomination for her sweet, smart, sexy central performance.

A panel of NBC News journalists and education experts will judge the essays, and will be looking for honest, personal accounts that show a unique side of teaching that isn't read about in the daily headlines.

Throughout his long career as an education journalist for PBS Newshour and NPR, John Merrow, Ed.D.» 73, spoke to many people in education — from policymakers to district leaders to classroom teachers — and he was impressed by the dedication most had to improving the field.

It is awarded annually to an enterprising journalist in support of a reporting project that illuminates a significant issue in pre-K-12 education.

To bring context to these debates, Education Week journalists will track shootings on K - 12 school property this year that result in firearm - related injuries or deaths.

Distinguished scholars and journalists attended the conference, co-hosted by the Nieman Foundation, HGSE, and the Ross Institute, to discuss the findings of a forthcoming collection of essays, Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (University of California Press in association with the Ross Institute, April 2004).

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

In this week's episode, Marty West talks with Wayne D'Orio, a veteran education journalist and the author of the article «Hamilton Goes to High School,» which will appear in the Summer 2017 issue of EdNexIn this week's episode, Marty West talks with Wayne D'Orio, a veteran education journalist and the author of the article «Hamilton Goes to High School,» which will appear in the Summer 2017 issue of EdNexin the Summer 2017 issue of EdNext.

Features in the fall 2013 issue include a collection of some of the biggest ideas in education from some the field's biggest names — including a Muppet; a look at a unique school in Sikkim, India, run by an alum and his family; and a chronicle of Project Zero's collaboration with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Paul Salopek as he spends the next seven years walking around the world.

Also in this issue, new research findings on how teacher proximity impacts collaboration; an American journalist's take on sending her son to a Chinese school while living abroad; and an assessment of the tenure of former New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera that looks ahead to whether her legacy will last.

Economists such as Eric Hanushek, and the journalist and social scientist Christopher Jencks, were asked to participate in the seminar and became exceptional scholars in the field of education.

Longtime education journalist Richard Lee Colvin is an independent writer, editor, and strategic communications consultant based in Washington, D.C..

Delve in and you find that veteran education journalist and PBS NewsHour habitué John Merrow is not exactly that sort of anti-reformer.

This one tends toward the latter, with the author emerging not as a journalist - observer at major education events of the past 40 years but more as a key mover in far more of those events than he actually influenced.

On the day when the bill covering the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services is scheduled for subcommittee markup - May 26 this year - lobbyists and journalists with a stake in the proceedings begin lining up in a corridor of the Rayburn Building.

Journalist Katherine Boo (in a 1992 Washington Monthly piece) described the education reform movement of the 70s and 80s as something that «didn't normally involve parents, let alone community members.»

As Director - General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is actively engaged in international efforts to advance quality education for all, gender equality, cultural dialogue and scientific cooperation for sustainable development and is leading UNESCO as a global advocate for safety of journalists and freedom of expression.

Thus, on multiple occasions in recent weeks, I found myself responding to journalists curious about the importance of the schools that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has visited.

Last week, I had the privilege to speak in front of a group of education journalists convened by the Poynter Institute and the Education Writers Association about identifying strengths and weaknesses in cueducation journalists convened by the Poynter Institute and the Education Writers Association about identifying strengths and weaknesses in cuEducation Writers Association about identifying strengths and weaknesses in curriculum.

With more than 30 years working as a journalist under his belt, Ottaway admits that he doesn't regret the decision, even though he has always kept one foot in the world of education.

It is easy to find statements by education experts and journalists that «merit pay doesn't work,» but as as Matt Barnum writes in The 74

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

A Journalist's Education in the Classroom: The Challenge of School Reform by David Awbrey (Rowman and Littlefield, 146 pp., $ 24.95)

A journalist at the New York Times, Emily Eakin, proudly announced her classics - free education several years ago in an article entitled «More Ado (Yawn) about Great Books,» a shame - free confession that she «graduated without having read for credit «The Odyssey,» «Paradise Lost,» a single play by Shakespeare or a single novel by Jane Austen, George Eliot or Henry James.»

«I'm confident that any and all concerns can adequately be addressed to ensure that this is a smooth process for schools who are involved in it,» Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham told journalists in Hobart.

Alexander Russo is a freelance journalist and author of the blog This Week in Education.

Audrey Watters is a technology journalist specializing in education technology news.

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