Sentences with phrase «as civil»

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

This article calls attention to the problematic trends in our national data, research on retention and its traumatic effects and how in - grade retention must be addressed as a civil rights issue.

He built a life as a civil rights leader.

Teacher tenure is cast as a civil rights issue for struggling students, because job protection for teachers is supposedly an obstacle to improving educational outcomes and closing the «achievement gap.»

In a move rife with political implications, the Senate Rules committee Wednesday voted to reject one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's nominees to the California State Board of Education because of her status as a civil servant employed by the state.

As a civil rights attorney I've seen this kind of ugly discrimination up close.

Our nation has «consistently and purposely underserved students of color,» notes Julian Vasquez Heilig, Professor of Educational Policy and Planning at University of Texas Austin, in a 2013 Texas Education Review article on the current reframing of school choice as a civil rights issue.

As the first person in my family to get a college degree (and later a law degree so that I could go on to work as a civil rights attorney), I worked hard to get here and I make no apologies for wanting the best for my son.

The neoliberal privatization movement has presented «choice» as a civil rights effort — and as the only option for changing the status quo for these historically underserved students of color.

The Reporter was founded in 1972 by John A. McDermott to measure Chicago's progress toward racial equality as the civil rights era ended.

Another alarming trend is that students of color or those with disabilities are disproportionately subjected to punitive discipline practices, 2, 8 which the U.S. Department of Education has recognized as a civil rights violation.

Following a successful first career as a civil engineer, GAVIN DYKESspent 20 years developing Technical Vocational Education and Training.

Just as important as all that is the political message Judge Treu's decision sent across the country, that here is a court that views quality public education as a civil right, guaranteed, in this case, by the California constitution.

Life.com organized these visual treasures into nearly 900 thematic sets (called galleries) of 12 — 20 photographs, grouped by topics such as civil rights, nature, the space race, and celebrities.

They should invite debate rather than shove disagreements under the rug, as the civil rights office has so often done in the past.

At that point, language - minority speakers and their advocates were arguing for bilingual education as a civil right.

The decent public education long denied New Orleans youth was framed as a civil right at least as fundamental as the access to jobs, public accommodations, and polling places that had been milestones in an earlier generation's fight to overcome segregation.

My career as a civil - industrial engineer began with LAN airlines, and, soon after, I launched my own business, Tercera Estación, which specializes in products to improve the quality of life and independence of senior citizens.

In this regard, it is worth noting that in Spain, ESC rights do not enjoy the same standard of protection as civil and political rights.

Deciphering Morse Code Students write and decode messages using Morse code, as Civil War soldiers might have done.

Working quickly as soon as the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, the Coleman research team drew a sample of over 4,000 schools, which yielded data on slightly more than 3,000 schools and some 600,000 students in grades 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12.

As civil rights icon Julian Bond said, «Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years» worth of education.»

But the gap won't get any narrower as long as civil - rights leaders oppose the reforms that are doing the most to bridge it.

The girls particularly like the extracurricular activities, such as a civil rights group and a leadership group in which they learn about living outdoors.

Many students became more activist - oriented as the civil rights movement raised the nation's consciousness to inequalities in the American education system.

«That day solidly defined another goal of mine: to figure out what it would mean for our country, our schools, and our students if literacy is recognized as a civil right,» says Yassine, who will be applying to Ph.D. programs for fall 2018 to study literacy, identity, and civil rights.

The new school is housed at Compton's Church of the Redeemer, whose pastor, Kerry Allison, sees education reform as the civil rights movement of this century.

Identifying these strategies to eliminate non-Serbs as a civil war is tantamount to defining the holocaust as a civil war between German Jews and German Arians.44 This is an example of how recent approaches to human rights can work to conceal and confound who is doing what to whom, thus effectively condoning such violations.45

«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.

Anyway, the film tentatively had Alexander Skarsgard as the loinclothed hero and Samuel L. Jackson as Civil War veteran George Washington Williams (though neither were officially signed) in the story that follows John Clayton III, who gets reassimilated into society only to be asked by Queen Victoria to investigate some strange things going on in the Congo.

Just as the Civil War looms outside of this forgotten girls» school, the dark history they certainly had on this southern plantation is just outside the frame and their minds.

Tom Wilkinson (Belle)-- always good — as Johnson brings out our 36th President's humanity without ignoring his well - documented racism (which makes his role as civil - rights hero even more remarkable), and Tim Roth («Lie to Me «-RRB- seems to have a lot of fun as the smirking George Wallace (the movie needs at least one villain to hate).

SYNOPSIS: As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army.

As Civil War reenactor gigs go, Colin Farrell has what appears to be a pretty good one in The Beguiled.

Nicole Kidman 4 Film Collection (Cold Mountain, Dogville, The Others, Rabbit Hole) DVD Reviews Cold Mountain (2003) Directed by: Anthony Minghella Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger Running Time: 2 hrs 34 mins Rating: R Due Out: April 3, 2012 PLOT: As the Civil War nears its end, a Confederate soldier (Law) makes the long journey home to reunite -LSB-...]

The film's ace ensemble casting extends to its smallest roles, including Cuba Gooding Jr. (doing his best work in years) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray and Martin Sheen as federal district court judge Frank M. Johnson.

Joe and Anthony Russo's directing of the on screen adaptation of a story as ambitious as Civil War is a small miracle.

Stewed from bits of Agatha Christie, David Mamet, and Sam Peckinpah, The Hateful Eight traps a cast of blowhards (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Civil War veteran, Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter known as «The Hangman,» and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a psychopathic gang member) in a blizzard - enveloped supply station.

Because, as Civil War proves, it's impossible not to smile when you see Spider - Man done right.

Hector is trying to outwit the afterlife bureaucrats, who are as stringent as the civil servants in Beetlejuice.

It's from the same writer - director teams as Civil War (screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directors Anthony and Joe Russo), but the cast is almost twice the size and the storylines to be juggled are exponentially more complex.

After living for more than thirty years under an assumed identity as a civil rights lawyer and single father in New York, he must now go on the run.

«Lincoln» Synopsis: Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin «s biography of Lincoln, «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,» the Steven Spielberg film stars Daniel Day - Lewis as the martyred president and follows the last several months of Lincoln's life as he faced violent opposition, on the battlefield and in the White House, as the Civil War gasped to a close, concluding with that fateful visit to Ford's Theatre.

Set to be directed by «Harry Potter» helmer David Yates, the movie tentatively has Alexander Skarsgard as the loinclothed hero and Samuel L. Jackson as Civil War veteran George Washington Williams in the story that follows John Clayton III, who gets reassimilated into society only to be asked by Queen Victoria to investigate some strange things going on in the Congo.

As the Civil Rights lawyer, Nick Kroll is much too pronounced as himself to come out on the other side intact.

But for the last few years, the prolific performer has been quietly building a rock - solid resumé through a series of high - profile supporting turns — from Straight Outta Compton (check out his Snoop Dogg) to Selma (that's him as Civil Rights martyr Jimmie Lee Jackson), Brad Pitt's why - we - fight satire War Machine to Jordan Peele's monster horror hit Get Out.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

It's confined to the final four months of his life, as the Civil War was ending and the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was being debated.

As the Civil War rages on, a poor Mississippi farmer leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army.

Meanwhile, back behind the wall, even less fun is being had as a civil war is threatening to break out between «factionless» commander Evelyn (Naomi Watts)-- who, in a case of «meet the new boss, same as the old boss» has grown desperately tyrannical after off killing Kate Winslet's high - handed Jeanine in the previous film — and former Amity leader Johanna (Octavia Spencer), who now leads the catch - all group known as Allegiant.