Sentences with phrase «educational historian»

However, neither the work of educational historian Maris Vinovskis nor my own reading of OERI reports suggests that any privilege is being accorded to random assignment.

As educational historian Ron Miller explains:

Reformers of all stripes seem to want to create what educational historian David Tyack has termed «the one best system.»

«I believe we are able to give teachers specific techniques, strategies, and assignments that demonstrate what we believe great teachers are doing already,» Maddin says, noting that at RGSE students are not asked to write papers on educational historians.

She's the most prominent educational historian since her predecessor, Lawrence Cremin from Teachers College and somehow people believe this should somehow enable her to lead our schools down the path of credible reform in her name's sake.

Diane Ravitch is a fine educational historian, and was the assistant secretary of education under the George H.W. Bush administration, and was, to some degree, an architect of NCLB.

When future educational historians look back at the last few decades of U.S. public schooling, they will surely identify a system in which students» scores on annual accountability tests became, almost relentlessly, the prominent determiner of a school's success.

The same rationale, educational historian Maris Vinovskis has written, underlay the «infant schools» movement of the 1820s.

Diane Ravitch is the educational historian of our time as Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss are the presidential hisorians for all Americans to read.

«This is a complex agreement and possibly the most sophisticated evaluation agreement that I have seen,» said Diane Ravitch, an educational historian and vocal critic of the use of test scores in teacher evaluations.

The new trend was well - described in 1987 as «tot sociology» by the educational historian, Diane Ravitch: