Sentences with phrase «public imagines a past»

Jay P. Greene, a senior fellow at the institute, who co-wrote the report with his colleague Greg Forster, said the findings point to a «false sense of nostalgia» that pervades discussions about schools, in which the public imagines a past with fewer out - of - school distractions, when students were easier to teach.

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Curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community - engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner, Oring, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories; listening and re-learning; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.

In addition, Blesofsky's installation allows viewers to imagine Wave Hill's past, uncovering its transition from a private estate to a public space when the Perkins - Freeman family donated the Wave Hill property and buildings to the City of New York in 1960.

With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.

Imagine a cross between Woody Allen and Carl Sagan and you come somewhat close to capturing the style of Richard Alley, a Penn State glaciologist and expert on Earth's past climate cycles who has spent years trying out new ways to captivate students and the public with the science and significance of climate change.