Sentences with phrase «national history»

A comparative and international history of school accountability can explore the relationships among individual national histories of accountability policy and discourse and broader questions of international trends and patterns.

So too, he points out, does a conveniently forgotten national history.

To overcome this, the researchers used an integrative approach through an international collaboration with national history museums, digital morphology libraries, as well as palaeontologists, biologists, and herpetologists.

«This move brings the total number of free school places created since 2010 to almost a quarter of a million, making this policy the most successful new schools programme in national history with schools being created more quickly than ever before.»

Gorn is also executive director of National History Day, a yearlong educational program designed to engage students in grades six through 12 in the study of history.

A second big thing you have to do during the week is a visit to the Museum of National History.

Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the leading candidate for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, last week attacked the voluntary national history standards in a speech designed to appeal to his party's conservative wing.

Social Studies / Native American Studies / US History: In Social Studies students explore Native American, New Mexican, US and World History, Geography and create projects and presentations for National History Day.

Presenters: Noralee Frankel, consultant with National History Day Craig Perrier, High School Social Studies Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools Respondent: Dale Steiner, professor of History, California State University, Chico

I started by having students watch videos from National History Day Student Project Examples and writing down what makes a quality performance.

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In 1994, the National Endowment for the Humanities and UCLA drafted voluntary National History Standards.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

Last week, I spoke with 2017 National History Teacher of the Year Sara Ziemnik.

Rather than focusing on national histories, the exhibition endeavors to excavate and make visible the variety and depth of contemporary art practiced and exhibited in Southeast Asia since the 1980s.

For many of them a frontier situation has been transmuted from a fact of national history into a point of view in the mind.

The Library of Congress has an extensive site of its own called American Memory, an online «gateway to primary sources» that allows students to explore national history using folk songs, oral history recordings, and primary documents.

She is former chair of the board of Canada's National History Society, and sits on the boards of the Ottawa International Authors Festival, the Art Canada Institute / Institut de l'Art Canadien, and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa.

It is a new chapter in a long national history of aggressive individualism, frontier lawlessness and the glorification of outlaws.

We are living in an age quite different from that of any other in our brief national history, insofar as suicidal behavior is concerned.

William has learned a little about racial discrimination through Martin Luther King Day and conversations we've had about our complicated national history around the Fourth of July.

Israel's national history began in a warlike event.

Our own national history gives credence to such a hope: in the wake of our Civil War no state even dreams of resisting the decisions of Congress and the Supreme Court with force.

He takes the ride aboard Shutthefrontdoor, who is likely to go off one of the shortest priced favourites in recent Grand National history.

Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

«Deep national history of immigration predicts wide cultural comfort displaying emotion.»

Illinois National History Survey scientists conduct an educational tour of the carp - infested waters.

The London National History Museum has unveiled «Hope» the blue whale as the new centerpiece for its atrium.

In our current National History Day project, task cards could include «analyze three primary sources» and «create the annotated bibliography.»

Real World History students attended the event and also met with an artist to explore ways to express their thoughts through movement, generating ideas for potential National History Day projects involving performance.

Other enrichment options include field trips, after school activities such as Fencing and Chess, MathCounts, and National History Bee teams, and family outings organized by the Schilling Parent Organization.

In the 1990s, the Bush and Clinton Administrations advocated national history standards.

Layton students headed to National History Fair.

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When I planned my visit to Cardiff, Wales, I envisioned exploring the castle grounds, checking out Cardiff Bay and visiting St Fagans, the open - air national history museum.

Port Louis, the capital, offers a Chinatown for perusal, and a number of museums, like the Mauritius National History Museum, Blue Penny Museum and Mauritius Stamp Museum.

Skip the lines for a 1.5 - hour tour of Edinburgh Castle and hear stories of one of the world's most heroic and bloody national histories.

Edward Goldman talks about the painful national histories explored by museums in Montgomery and Moscow.

Taking its cue from the upcoming general election, the Hayward Gallery asks six artists to curate individual displays exploring key moments in national history since 1945.

The galleries devoted to these movements are some of the best in the exhibition, focusing on specific exhibitions, such as Indonesia's Fantasy World Supermarket (1987), instead of sweeping national histories.

For an American, race has a corrosive history — but a distinctly national history.

Organized into four loosely chronological categories — 19th century colonialism, early 20th century nationalism, 1950s — 70s revolution, and post-1970s postmodernism — Between Declarations and Dreams collapses complex national histories into a compact regional narrative.

Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery.

Institutions for the insane and a haunting labyrinth of hallways thereafter, these remnants of old U.S. methods, lost therapies in such a short national history, stand tall in the wind that always seems to surround them.

As Dial began to tackle wider national histories of oppression and contemporary issues of freedom and equality, his work became more simplified in form and color palette and took on a more pluralist vision.