Sentences with phrase «as student activists»

Shame it lacks bite, though gore, vomit and shit flow as student activists (Knock Knocks Lorenza Izzo stands out) in the Amazon encounter a flesh - munching tribe; the well - fed Americans are soon slapped on the slab.

As student activists walked out of class Friday morning, they did so demanding passage of a gun control requirement that the Parkland school shooter passed in order to acquire his gun.

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Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

Shel Horowitz has been both an environmental activist / organizer and a marketer since 1972 (as a 15 - year - old high school student).

It's something of a moot point now, as school administrators have decided not to allow conservative activist Charlie Kirk to speak at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a pro-gun rights student there, Kyle Kashuv, invited him.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is going on a one - week «Easter Break» from her show as advertisers boycott The Ingraham Angle over a tweet criticizing anti-gun Parkland student activist David Hogg.

It's being hailed as a step toward addressing gun violence, but it's a far cry from the «comprehensive» gun control student activists are demanding — and that even President Donald Trump once called on Congress to pass.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our Lives rally.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our...

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

As one small example, I spoke to a group of pro-choice activists a few weeks ago, many of whom work with students on college campuses.

NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi will join Kennedy and her mother, Ethel, as well as anti-bullying activist Jamie Nabozny at 10 a.m. at Beacon High School in midtown Manhattan to talk to students about bullying.

Rioting at the University of Yaoundé was fierce and human rights activists reported multiple student deaths (with some reports saying as many as 48 died).

A constituency with a dense student population, Coppard has credited his young activists as central to his recent campaigning momentum.

To join PNHP as a physician, health professional, medical student, or activist, visit pnhp.org/join.

Elected officials, activists, advocates and university students have a number of actions planned for this week to decry the president's policy dictates targeting Muslims and undocumented immigrants, as well as to provide support and guidance to impacted people.

If the senator blatantly refuses to protect New York families, we must, as the brave student activists are telling legislators, shout «enough» with our votes.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Dozens of students, parents, educators and activists are urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm John King, President Obama's choice to succeed Arne Duncan as education secretary, because he pushed education policies when he was education commissioner of New York State that they say were «ineffective and destructive.»

As for Douglas High alum, now university student activist Matt Harris, he was taking the long view.

Lieutenant governor candidate Kathy Hochul and former New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn held an emotional meeting with student activists on Wednesday as part of the «information gathering stage» for legislation that would combat sexual assaults on college campuses.

Opt - out activists have said the number will continue to grow, citing reasons such as the perceived «over-testing» of students using exams that are not age and grade appropriate, as well as the use of test scores on teacher evaluations.

Ms. González, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has emerged as one of the most prominent faces among the student activists who have mobilized against gun violence after a shooting at their school last month that left 17 dead.

Currently Chelsea is developing a yoga and literacy curriculum for Atlanta area youth organizations, as well as providing trainings for yoga practitioners, educators, community leaders, activists, and students interested in expanding their awareness on issues concerning marginalized youth, individuals, and communities.

The movie doubles as a political and environmental allegory like so many horror classics but mocks student activists and makes victims out of those who attempt to halt the encroaching bulldozers.

«Cameron's passion is adult education, and as a student - activist at HGSE, he followed through on his passion for adult learners by establishing a new organization dedicated to this overlooked population of learners.

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

Learning Objective To give students a background into art as being a statement to reform society, to see an artists who works as an activist to make statements about the corruption in the Chinese Government.

When asked for steps on how students can enable their own agency as activists, Jackson highlighted the importance of taking education seriously, doing research to shine light onto issues, and taking necessary steps to act with intentionality.

As schools shift away from students as active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.&raquAs schools shift away from students as active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.&raquas active participants in their own learning, museums and the arts become places where activist learning can happen.»

According to Byrne, and several other activists, many administrators are initially resistant to establishing GSAs, even though the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has encouraged them ever since 1993, when the department (then called the State Board of Education) recommended the establishment of GSAs across the state as one means of providing a supportive environment for LGBT students.

Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference Harvard Crimson, 5/4/15 «Judges named two intiatives, Educational Justice Activists and Prepped, as winners at an educational entrepreneurship conference on Friday for students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective.»

In her new book from Harvard Education Press, Brooklyn Dreams, author and educator Sonia Nieto tells the story of her life in education — as a student, teacher, and activist.

As activists and as students, we recognize that beyond the political nuances of the recent executive orders on immigration, there are many students and families who feel incredibly vulnerable as they watch their government place bans against their countrieAs activists and as students, we recognize that beyond the political nuances of the recent executive orders on immigration, there are many students and families who feel incredibly vulnerable as they watch their government place bans against their countrieas students, we recognize that beyond the political nuances of the recent executive orders on immigration, there are many students and families who feel incredibly vulnerable as they watch their government place bans against their countrieas they watch their government place bans against their countries.

Calm is what we need as we become activists for our students and community.

At the transformation of traditional public school districts to non-traditional charter school districts in New Orleans, birthed a group of fearless student activists called the Carver Five known throughout the city as the C5!

Teen Hoopla connects students to local, national, and international activist sites that allow students to either organize community action projects or join such international organizations as Greenpeace, Habitat for Humanity, or Amnesty International.

Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

Certainly the fact that Native groups are an important (and increasingly activist) political constituency for the administration played a part in the decision, as did President Obama's signing of Executive Order 13592 (which requires the Department of Education, the Department of Interior and other agencies to collaborate on improving education for Native students).

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legiStudents Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legistudents place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

As educators, students, and activists across the country gear up for another demonstration this month to fight against school violence, AACTE is sharing resources and collecting member stories related to both advocacy and educator preparation for school safety.

Brown v. Board was a landmark decision made possible by the courage and moral leadership of grassroots activists, parents and students on the ground as well as the Supreme Court justices who wrote the unanimous decision.

Since the voices of students and teachers are mostly absent from the literature, Esteem was imagined as an active site of inquiry, collaboration, and expression, that had the potential to help graduate students rethink their own conceptions of self, while making connections and sharing the knowledge of those who have inspired them to be educators, researchers, scholars, or activists.

Then I focus on the politicization of standardized testing, showing how a larger wave of student protests in 2011 creates opportunities for activists to frame test - based accountability as a pernicious market technology.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.