Sentences with phrase «writes education historian»

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This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Weekeducation historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education WeekEducation Week website.

Education historian and author Diane Ravitch writes, «Since Michigan embraced the DeVos family's ideas about choice, Michigan has steadily declined on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.»

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.»

Anybody reading much of the commentary written on education policy could be forgiven for thinking that education historian Diane Ravitch is somehow the Wizardess of Ed, the woman behind the curtain secretly pulling the strings.

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.»

Brill gets very worked up about the fact that Diane Ravitch, a distinguished historian of education who wrote a book renouncing her previous embrace of charters and merit pay, may have subsequently received payment for speaking to teachers» union audiences.

Education historian and university professor Diane Ravitch wrote at her personal blogsite, «In order to explain a point of view, one must make the effort to hear the voices of critics without caricaturing them.

She contacted Lawrence Cremin, the esteemed education historian at Teachers College, Columbia University, and floated the idea of writing one herself.

«Democrats pushed to restore a punitive accountability system, much like NCLB,» education historian Diane Ravitch wrote on her personal blog, calling the vote, «evidence of how little Congress knows about education.»

An article on Wednesday about a surprising reversal by the education historian Diane Ravitch of almost every position she once took on American schooling misstated the number of books she has either written or edited since leaving government in 1993.

Education historian Diane Ravitch writes about the latest effort to cleanse Mark Twain's «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» of hurtful words.

Purdue President Mitch Daniels is firing back after the Associated Press printed emails the former governor exchanged with education officials and staff about a textbook written by a liberal historian.

There's Richard Rothstein at the Economic Policy Institute, Washington Post columnist Valerie Strauss (whose lending of pages to every crackpot opinion borders on the promiscuous), Pedro Noguera writing for The Nation, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch's appearances on The Daily Show and in The Wall Street Journal.

He is the author or editor of eight books The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900 - 1940 (1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians; The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction (2008); Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (2003, co-edited with Steven Conn); Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (2003, co-edited with Randall Mason); The Future of Higher Education (2011, with Dan Clawson); Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (2011, co-edited with Tim Mennell); Campus Guide to the University of Massachusetts (2013, with Marla Miller); and Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina (2013).