Sentences with phrase «public education historian»
And in a comment on Monday, public education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch combined Wozniak's critique with Warren's, denouncing DeVos» lack of «experience or qualificiations» and saying the heiress» «only plan is to weaken and destroy» U.S. public schools.
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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.
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.
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.
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.»
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).
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.
Education historian Diane Ravitch notes that New York City's Catholic clergy moved to protect children from «Protestant propaganda» by discouraging them from attending the city's public schools.
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.
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.
The six are Andy Hargreaves, author and Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at Boston College; Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation research at the Clayton Christensen Institute.
Recently, education historian Diane Ravitch called for congressional investigation of Bill Gates and his out - sized and undemocratic role in the takeover of public education.
Hard hitting words from historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, who addressed hundreds of educators, policy makers and...
Hard hitting words from historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, who addressed hundreds of educators, policy makers and advocates today at the 2014 Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh.
Those on the left, such as notable historian and public education advocate Diane Ravitch, oppose Common Core for its corporate backing and believes that the guidelines essentially set up students to fail, providing another reason for parents to abandon public schools for private alternatives
NPE is a national group dedicated to fighting for local public education, and was founded just a few years ago by education luminaries like historian Diane Ravitch and teacher / writer Anthony Cody.
Since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, public education has been dominated by what the historian Raymond Callahan (1962) described as a «cult of efficiency,» an almost religious faith in the power of rational, «scientific» management to tame the complexities of life in schools (also see Rose, 2016; Mehta, 2015).
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.
She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»
«Common enrollment is a big Walton idea to put charters on the same footing as public schools,» education historian and national treasure Diane Ravitch told me in an email.
A Colorado congressman tweeted last year that Diane Ravitch, an education historian and de facto leader of public school activists, was an «evil woman.»
New York University education historian Diane Ravitch's blog went so far as to call this series a «suck up» to Trump and DeVos, «public television's effort to curry favor with the Trump administration.»
Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch said that language was unacceptable and that, among other things, the Democrats needed to make a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools.
Posted on November 18, 2016 · After months of protests from historians, teachers and lawmakers, the Texas State Board of Education this morning unanimously rejected a controversial Mexican - American studies textbook that would have been used in public schools
Diane Ravitch, and author and historian of American education and a best - selling author, writes in In these Times that DeVos and Prince families «have contributed generously to anti-gay and anti-labor causes over the years, but Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick, have shown a special passion for privatizing public education.»
The other four people who will be featured in future interviews are Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation and creator of the famous theory of multiple intelligences; Diane Ravitch, education historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation historian, best - selling author and co-founder of the Network for Public Education; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen IEducation; Charles Fadel, author, inventor and the founder and chairman of the Center for Curriculum Redesign; and Julia Freeland Fisher, author and director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Ieducation research at the Clayton Christensen Institute.
«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.
From the perspective of these folks, most - notably the education historian - turned - sophist Diane Ravitch, the Newtown massacre serves as their chance to mount their usual criticisms of the school reform movement and advocate against public charter schools, as well as go beyond that.
Judith Kafka, an education historian and author of The History of «Zero Tolerance» in American Public Schooling, traces the phrase «zero tolerance» back to a U.S. Customs Service antidrug program from the 1980s, which was soon adopted by states and districts for school discipline.
Education historian Diane Ravitch says the privatization of public education hasEducation historian Diane Ravitch says the privatization of public education haseducation has to stop.
Education historian Diane Ravitch and author of the best selling book, «Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools» traces the accountability movement back to 1983 when «A Nation at Risk» was published.
«In my view, historians will look on this era as a period of failed mandates, of willful and ignorant attacks on public education and the education profession, and as a time in which entrepreneurs sought to turn education into a marketplace for profit.»
Educational historian Diane Ravitch said of Ms. DeVos, «Never has anyone been appointed to lead [the Office of Education] in the past 150 years who was hostile to public educatioEducation] in the past 150 years who was hostile to public educationeducation.»
Diane Ravitch, historian of American education and author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Historian Diane Ravitch criticized Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school Education Secretary Arne Duncan for his stances, which lead many public education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school education advocates to feel as though electing GOP candidate Mitt Romney would not change much about the current direction of the nation's school policies.
And his profile of once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch has done plenty to further remind all of us that she doesn't deserve to be taken seriously as either a traditionalist or a public intellectual.
The new book by education historian and activist Diane Ravitch, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, has debuted on The New York Times bestseller list in the non-fiction hardback category at No. 10.
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