Texas. Thank you jim. Id like to start by explaining how i came to write this and why i came to write this. And to that purpose ill read from, initial part of the preface. Im a physicist not a historian but over the years ive become increasingly fascinated by the history of science. My own handwriting is touch on history, its been mostly the modern history of physics and astronomy, roughly from the late 19th century to the present. Although in this era we learned many new things. The goals and since the physical size have not materially changed. The physicist of 1900 were somehow taught todays standard model of cosmology or of elementary particle physicist, they wouldve found much to amaze them at the idea of seeking mathematically formulated and experimentally validated impersonal principles that explain the wide variety of phenomena would have seen quite familiar. A while ago i decided i needed to dig deeper to learn more about an earlier era in the history of science and the goals a
Who are trying to figure out how to include social and emotional into the multiple choice format. I think the behavioral tracking stuff is pretty valuable. Just making that an Upcoming Trip all by itself, you know sick days for students, fighting expulsion, there is be able to put things can be very very powerful as indicated of the Overall Health of the school as a system. The other thing is do you see a tendency to realize that objective testing is not always the way that we have to start trusting the subjective can you speak about that . This is a very core point of which are thing. We all make assessments every day and we all have to deal with other peoples assessments and judgments every day. Decouples towards data is a really, really strong in our culture right now and were all kind of living our lives by external metrics but we dont necessarily understand the quality of the data that goes into those metrics or the nature or the algorithms to produce the outcomes of the metrics.
Patterson, who is on our irgc board of directors. And bob who has come all the way from toronto to be here this to be with us this evening. Joe straw is the associate professor of International Studies and the director of the center for christians scholarship and Redeemer University in toronto. Eric patterson is the current Vice President of the religious Freedom Institute here in washington, and the scholar at large for the Region University in virginia beach. It also should be pointed out that our providence executive director contributed a chapter to this book. And i am mark thule, president and editor at providence. So a special welcome to all of you who are here physically this evening in Downtown Washington d. C. , to all of our viewers on facebook and twitter, and to our viewers on cspan book tv. This video will be airing no doubt many times in the near future. Eric patterson, i believe, wants to speak first and he will explain the rest of the evening to you. But there will be p
Studies at yale university. His books include cold war at 30,000 feet, the angloamerican fight for supremacy. He received a pretty significant award he won a prize from the American Historical Association process and a work in strategic history. He wrote consequences of the global cold war published by Stanford University press in two nay and the china diary of george h. W. Bush, making of the global president published by princeton University Press in 2008. The whole reform with one of our manufacturers with the Strategic Studies Institute and 20 times and he wrote to follow the berlin while the revolutionary legacy of 1989, published by oxford University Press in 2009. Obviously a mission that the bush school, but it we know hes doing well asset me. I would now like to suggest are going to have a reintroduction to dr. Jeff said are you coming up on stage. Before he brings his earmarks were going to see a video and this is a pretty significant video because its video in president bush
The bush school and texas a m. When jeff was here at texas a m, he was the director of programming for the scrocroft institute and is a graduate of cornell university. He additionally studied ate st. Katherines college, Oxford University and received his ph. D in American History from the university of wisconsin in madison and serve as an owen post doctoral fellow in interNational Security, studied at yale university. His books include, cold war, at noun feet. The Anglo American fight for aviation supremacy. He received a pretty significant award for that book. He won the prize from the american historical, so i for this outstanding work in history. He wrote local consequences of the global cold war. Published by Stanford University press in 2008. And the china die a of george h. W. Bush, the making of a global president , published by princeton University Press in 2008. Rethinking leadership and whole of Government National security reform, with one of our bush School Faculty members,