Sentences with phrase «former assistant secretary of education»

LA School Report has learned a little of the backstory behind a recent election - focused post that was published on former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch's blog.

* Carmel Martin, former assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the Department of Education, and the current executive vice president at the Center for American Progress.

The blog post, which has already been intelligently critiqued by Ann Whalen at Education Post, expanded on remarks delivered by Burris earlier this month at an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate with Fordham president Michael Petrilli and former assistant secretary of education Carmel Martin.

«The depth of discouragement among educators in the trenches is at an all - time high and can not be overstated,» said former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch in a recent BAM Radio interview.

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 school choice.

Speakers included former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch, Academy Award - winning actor Matt Damon and Damon's mother, Nancy Carlson Paige, a former Massachusetts public school teacher.

Educational historian and former assistant secretary of education Diane Ravitch, ever skeptical of «pedagogical fads, enthusiasms, and movements,» would like my principal, even though he campaigns for vouchers and sifts through test scores with archaeological zeal.

The state made its announcement shortly after Michael Williams, former assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President George H.W. Bush, took over the reins as the state's new commissioner of education.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

While some roundly criticized the department's audacity — former assistant secretary of education Diane Ravitch called the strategy embedded in the department's draft documents «coercive» and North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue described it as «prescriptive» — others believed this would ensure the wise investment and use of these funds.

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 Education.

The 25 - year national gamble on charter schools has been a losing bet, resulting in a series of missed opportunities and creating a tragic distraction from what most education researchers agree are the real inequities underlying the so - called achievement gap, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said this week.

The 25 - year experiment with charter schools has been a failure, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said this week at the annual conference of the Network for Public Education.

Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch was once an early advocate of No Child Left Behind, school vouchers and charter schools.

-- Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education and New York Times bestselling author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

-- Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education; author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

* Starred Review * As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public - school advocate to market - driven accountability and choice supporter back to public - school advocate.

Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, has in the past supported standardized testing, as well as charter schools.

Chester Finn, Jr., President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative think tank, and a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, understands why many districts stick with the testing model but thinks policies need to be flexible.

Click here to read part 1 of the Prospect's interview with the former assistant secretary of education.

«If it encourages other locals to strike,» former assistant secretary of education Diane Ravitch said over e-mail, «it could have a huge impact.»

One she heard criticize the No Child law was Chester E. Finn Jr., a former assistant secretary of education with whom she had written a book and worked at two conservative research groups, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

These include Smarick and Chester Finn, a former assistant secretary of education under President Ronald Reagan and president emeritus of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank.

Finn, a former assistant secretary of education in the Reagan administration, said the quality of charter schools across the country varies widely, and he predicted that the results would make those overseeing charters demand more in the way of performance.

Like Mr. Cunningham, Dr. Ravitch was a former assistant secretary of education, but has now turned her professional energies towards leading the resistance to the Deformer agenda.