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Direct linkRibbins, Peter; Sherratt, Brian – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
This paper reports a study of permanent secretaries who served at the Department for Education (DfE) from 1975 to 2011. Located within a context of theories that explain how government bureaucracies operate, it focuses on Michael Bichard. Appointed in July 1995 when attempts were being made to open Whitehall to non-career civil servants, he…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Public Agencies, Educational History, Educational Administration
Jacobsen, Douglas; Jacobsen, Rhonda Hustedt – Christian Higher Education, 2014
The educational theories and policies promoted by Ernest L. Boyer (1928-1995), who served as chancellor of the SUNY system, U.S. Commissioner (Secretary) of Education, and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, were significantly influenced by his affiliations with the Brethren in Christ Church and the Society of…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Policy, Christianity, Biographies
Swain, Shurlee – American Indian Quarterly, 2013
In 1838 a child known as Mathinna was removed from the settlement for the remnant of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people on Flinders Island and taken to Hobart to live in the house of the lieutenant governor. Sir John and Lady Franklin, the historical record recounts, were impressed by her intelligence and wanted to bring her up as a companion to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Adoption, Children
Download full textGill, Wanda E. – Online Submission, 2013
The 2013 Black History Month Programs at the U.S. Department of Education highlighted and celebrated emancipation, Civil Rights, the histories of key Black organizations and the contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities through a series of programs offered both in Barnard Auditorium at headquarters on Maryland Avenue, S.W,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Partnerships in Education, African American History, Black Colleges
Barnhardt, Ray – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
This article describes the influences of William Demmert's formative years growing up in Alaska and his years as an educator of Native American students upon his career in Native education policy. It focuses on Alaska Native education during a ten-year period between 1980 and 1990 during which time he served as the director of the Center for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Liberal Arts
Blair, Meg – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Bella Stavisky was born in New York City on July 24, 1920. She was born to activism: her father's butcher shop was called the Live and Let Live Meat Market, in protest of WWI. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and when her father died there was no son to say Kaddish for him, so 13-year-old Bella marched into Temple each day for a year to…
Descriptors: Jews, Civil Rights, Lawyers, Court Litigation
Molohon, Bernard, Comp. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This booklet brings together memorable expressions on liberty and democracy by philosophers, statesmen, and writers of all times. It also presents in brief story form memorable episodes in the never-ending struggle for freedom. The selected references suggest sources of additional material on these subjects. If these quotations and stories find…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, Speeches, Democracy
