Sentences with phrase «support education historian»
People who support education historian Diane Ravitch's positions on reform are:
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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.
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.
National education historian, Diane Ravitch, has also applauded the action of Garfield teachers, sending the teachers a letter of support and dedicating a statement on her blog to their announcement.
Her graduate and postgraduate work has been supported by fellowships from the Spencer Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her writings on history, education and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History Asseducation and society have received national awards from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the History of Education Society and the Oral History AssEducation Society and the Oral History Association.
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.
In her 2013 book, Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch — an education historian and former federal education official who originally supported but later became a critic of reforms like No Child Left Behind — cites surprising evidence that a nation's higher position on an international ranking of test scores actually predicted lower per capita GDP decades later, compared with countries whose test scores ranked worse.
The foundation was established by art historian William Arnett and his sons, and once they have dispersed their own collection to institutions, will focus on education and other artist support initiatives.