Sentences with phrase «said education historian»

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.

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• 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.

How about providing children with a real education and teach them what anthropologists, archeologists and religious historians seeking the truth have to say about where god came from:

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).

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.

«This is a land grab, a power grab,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian who endorsed Mr. de Blasio during his campaign.

Home schooling will segue into hybrid education, historian Milton Gaither says (see «Home Schooling Goes Mainstream» features).

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.

Oeri sources said last week that the education historian Diane Ravitch was slated to be Mr. Cross's successor.

After all, he said, he was introducing the education historian and anti-corporate reform activist Diane Ravitch.

Although to say that the study of the Holocaust is a matter for historians might seem intuitively true, I have maintained at various workshops and meetings about Holocaust education (where I am often among the minority as an English professor) that the flexibility of the English / language arts (ELA) classroom well suits this complex topic.

«I can't remember the last time anyone in a leadership position said anything about desegregation,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian at New York University.

«Ultimately, the big issue comes down to how important this is to the people in charge,» Dr. Ravitch, the education historian, said.

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.

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.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

Education historian Diane Ravitch says, «It appears that [the students at Rocketship] are being trained to work on an assembly line.

«This is a land grab, a power grab,» said Diane Ravitch, an education historian who endorsed Mr. de Blasio during his campaign.

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.

Some analysts are now calling for teachers» colleges to follow the Emporia State model — «to give them a lot of practical experience so they're not shocked when they come into the classroom,» says Diane Ravitch, the education historian, who is working on a book entitled «Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachereducation historian, who is working on a book entitled «Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching TeacherEducation: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers.»

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: «Our approach to the history curriculum has been supported by some of the country's most eminent historians, including Professor Niall Ferguson, Professor David Starkey, Antony Beevor and Dr Amanda Foreman.

«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.

Over the past few years, Dropout Nation has had plenty to say about once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch.

Education historian Diane Ravitch, watching the debate, said in an email that the school - reform grants under Obama's «Race to the Top» program have «thus far improved nothing.»

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«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 is not surprising, said Diane Ravitch, an education historian and the author of «The Death and Life of the Great American School System.»

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.»

«First she angered the Marxist historians, and later the fans of progressive education and the multiculturalists,» said Jeffrey E. Mirel, a professor of education and history at the University of Michigan.

Education historian Diane Ravitch says the teachers on the front lines of labor rallies in Wisconsin reflect growing anger among educators nationwide.

«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.