Sentences with phrase «former education historian»

Diane Ravitch is a former education historian and federal education official who in recent years...

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Prominent speakers have included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, historian Noam Chomsky, edX President Anant Agarwal, mindfulness guru Jon Kabat - Zinn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, autism activist Temple Grandin, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, Khan Academy founder and director Sal Khan, and Whistling Vivaldi author Claude Steele.

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.

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.

These small numbers continued through World War I, when only about 5 percent of American children went to high school and eighth grade was the culmination, says education historian and former dean Patricia Albjerg Graham.

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 Eeducation 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 Eeducation, 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 EducationEducation.

Prominent speakers have included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, historian Noam Chomsky, edX President Anant Agarwal, mindfulness guru Jon Kabat Zinn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, filmmaker M.Night Shyamalan, autism activist Temple Grandin, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, Khan Academy founder and director Sal Khan, and Whistling Vivaldi author Claude Steele.

For Diane Ravitch, a historian of education and former assistant education secretary, the program is predicated on «the idea that you can't trust teachers.»

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.

Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence (TREE), Tennessee BATs, and Momma Bears today announced a special event featuring acclaimed historian, best - selling author, and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch.

«It's a direct attack on public education,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian and former Bush administration official who has become one of the most voluble critics of vouchers and charter schools and a proponent of the term privatization.

In short, Parent Trigger laws are a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing it over to private corporations,» according to Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush Adminieducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush AdminiEducation in the first Bush Administration.

In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.

«What happens in New York always has repercussions elsewhere,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educatioeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educatioEducation who has since become a critic of what she sees as the corporatization of educationeducation policy.

Education historian and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said she opposed New York's Race to the Top application because of the increased focus on testing it brought in.

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.»

Parent triggers are presented as a grassroots way to give parents control — and have been romanticized in the film Won't Back Down — but Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. assistant secretary of education in the first Bush Administration, characterizes parent trigger laws as a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing them over to private corporations.»

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 schooeducation 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 schooEducation 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.

Purdue President Mitch Daniels is firing back after the Associated Press printed emails the former governor exchanged with education officials and staff about a textbook written by a liberal historian.

«I've never seen so many cheating scandals as there have been in the last few years,» said Diane Ravitch, a New York University education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Billeducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under Presidents George H.W. Bush and BillEducation under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

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.

Other plans include a special 50th anniversary edition of the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education in Fall, 2015 that will examine the AAVMC's 50 - year body of work from a more scholarly perspective, and the publication of a history book by noted veterinary medical historian and former Cornell Dean Dr. Don Smith.

The Andersons» affinity for Stanford can be traced not only to the art education they received from historians Elsen and Wanda Corn, but also because their home and former business headquarters have been neighbors of the campus for nearly 50 years.

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

A few years ago, the former UK Education Minister (yes, you read that right) complained that historians and TV programs denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a «misbegotten shambles.»

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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