Sentences with phrase «of education historians»

But the opinions of education historians didn't matter much.

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One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

• Reviewing Philip Gleason's excellent history of Catholic higher education, Contending with Modernity, our premier evangelical church historian, Mark Noll of Wheaton, says Gleason's argument has much wider application.

A few historians of Christianity in Africa claim that some Africans from the colonial era to the present, professed Christianity in order to gain access to the benefits (such as education and health care) that accompanied the colonists and their religion.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

In fact he had received the kind of philosophical education at Oxford that enabled him, like John Henry Newman before him, to resist the two opposed temptations that the historian of science Richard Olson has labeled «science deified» and «science defied.»

Historians of American higher education generally point to the founding in 1876 of Johns Hopkins University, the first graduate university in the United States, as the moment when the «Berlin» model became decisive for American higher education.

As historian Richard Hofstadter has documented, the principles of academic freedom had relatively little place in American higher education prior to this century.

Rejecting the negative judgments implicit in Delumeau's notion of «Christianization,» the English historian John Bossy, himself by upbringing and education a Catholic, offered a rather less benign overarching analysis of the Catholic and Protestant reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In Marsden's account, as in that of other historians, the most transformative force in higher education has been the political economy.

The book is a brilliant presentation of the cognitive dissonance that results from a faulty education, especially for a historian who continues to be hounded by the models of harmony he found at Chartres Cathedral and in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Funded by three successive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the project was able to develop class - tested materials and to enlist the support of recognized historians of religion.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

The US Department of Education, helmed by its new secretary, Betsy DeVos, yesterday misspelled the name of African American historian and civil - rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet.

The historian and shadow education minister took delegates on a «radical walk» through Brighton yesterday evening, to explore its landmarks of Labour history

The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizedEducation, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardizededucation advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

DFER's new strategy «gives them protection for their agenda if the Senate goes Democratic without their help,» said Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and frequent critic of the charter movement.

In the current issue of the journal Nature, the historians of science and science education, Prof. Uwe Hoßfeld und Dr. habil.

Education historian William Cutler explains in Parents and Schools that «educators and most school board members prefer to think of the parent - teacher association as an extension of the educational establishment, «an auxiliary to the public school,» as the Los Angeles County Board of Education put it in 1908.»

In this forum, lead author of Learning from No Child Left Behind, EdisonLearning's John Chubb, and education historian and task force member Diane Ravitch, who declined to sign the recommendations, weigh in on the future of the law.

The economic historian, William Fischel, carefully documents how the development and spread of high school education in the United States was driven by localities seeking to compete for residents demanding a more rigorous education.

Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education.

Despite the obvious new age mood of the sessions, some of the discussion had a déjà vu quality to it, brought home by education historian David Cohen, the University of Michigan professor with long gray hair and backpack, who bemoaned the lack of a national curriculum and praised the efforts of the common core crowd.

Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as desegregation, vouchers, charter schools, and leadership.

No obscure figure, Kilpatrick was «the most influential teacher in the nation's leading college of education,» spending nearly 30 years on the faculty of Columbia University's Teachers College, notes education historian Diane Ravitch.

«He was a marvelous raconteur, he had a wonderful sense of humor, and he could charm the socks off you,» recalls Patricia Albjerg Graham, a historian of American education and dean of the Ed School from 1982 to 1991.

Gareth Davies, a historian at Oxford University, brings care and precision to his study of the process that produced federal education legislation and regulation in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1980s.

Conference offers much more: The conference programme has by now been enriched with an attendance of Northern Ireland Minister for Education John O'Dowd, the key - note speeches from several prominent historians, including prof. Tony Gallagher (Queens University), Eamon Phoenix (Stanmillis College), Philip Orr (Author of several books and Historian).

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.

«America's leading historian of education» (New York Times) and a burr under Klein's saddle for most of his eight - year tenure, Ravitch is more restrained here than usual.

As a math historian, my research has led me to believe the only solution is a radical re-think of the foundations of western elementary mathematics education.

A leading historian of education and expert on education research, Lagemann led the Ed School through a period of transition and progress.

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.

In her 2003 book The Science Education of American Girls, historian Kim Tolley examines the evolution of girls» scientific interests from the antebellum era through the 20th century.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

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.

She is an acclaimed historian of education whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachineducation whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachinEducation Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1983).

The University of Michigan's Maris Vinovskis is undoubtedly the most diligent, thorough, and prolific historian of education goings - on in Washington over the past quarter century, particularly when it comes to standards, assessments, and compensatory programs.

The dispute between the reports» authors — which flared into the open on a national network news program Sept. 6 — pitted Lynne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, against Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian, and Chester E. Finn Jr., an assistant secretary of education.

A leading historian of American education, Graham served as dean of the Ed School from 1982 through 1991.

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.

He served as co-PI and advisor in several National Science Foundation - funded professional development research projects, on the National Education Advisory Board for the French & Indian War 250th Anniversary Commemoration, and on the Organization of American Historians - Advanced Placement Joint Advisory Board on Teaching the U.S. History Survey.

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.

As an historian, I was particularly pleased to see how the editor saw fit to include an historical review of the period since the 1950s, mentioning, among other things, Arthur Bestor's great book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools, the influence of Sputnik, and (a little later) the Great Society legislation, to underscore the national commitment to education for everyone.

Most modern college presidents adhere to the school of thought that says institutions should only take a stance on public issues that could impact the core mission of the university, says Julie Reuben, a historian at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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.

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

He kept this emphasis when other leading historians of education, particularly Lawrence Cremin, turned their attention «to the many agencies that educate.»

Stanford University's David Labaree, a respected historian of education, explains that, as far back as the early twentieth century, school reformers were pushing for efficiency and utility, while education professors wanted schools to help individual children blossom and develop a lifelong love of learning.