Sentences with phrase «just as the reformers»

Just as the Reformers sought to reform the church of their day, so also, they would want those who came after them to continue the reforms «till we all come to the unity of the faith» (Ephesians 4:13).

Not exact matches

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who argued for salvation by grace against a salvation by works Gospel, who argued for Jesus as the son of God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «God's» created beings.

I use the phrase as the Reformers did, to signify not just the text in its God - givenness but also the God - given message that it contains.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

The just - war tradition, rooted in the ethical theories of Plato and Cicero and formulated within the Christian tradition by Augustine, Aquinas and the Protestant Reformers, defends military force as a last resort against grave injustice.

Perkins cast himself as an Albany reformer, and said he was not absolutely opposed to charter schools, just not to the detriment of public schools.

By comparing his radicalism to Thatcher's he hopes to take on her mantle as a great reformer — someone who didn't just win, but changed the terms of the game.

Hi Rachel, With my new job I have just started walking to and from work each day which is about 35 mins each way (5 days a week) am doing over 10,000 steps on these days as well as 3 — 4 x Reformer Pilates classes a week.

She's overtired of conferences where reformers «plead for forgiveness for our narrow - minded approach» and agree to «exchange our convictions for anything that will suggest just how broad - minded we now are — as long as we de-emphasize academic goals.»

A secondary finding that reformers should find just as stunning is that the evidence suggests that new charter schools are not making up the difference.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

And by coincidence I was lucky enough to spend some time with the popular two - term Florida governor (1999 — 2007) just last week as partEducation Next's «Conversation» series with important education reformers (see my conversations with John White, Whitney Tilson, and Chris Cerf).

So I'm not okay with the argument or attitude that reformers should either replace all of the traditional public schools with charter schools or just «let districts be districts,» as Mike Petrilli recently argued.

The education reformer — who has also played a role in North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, N.J. — reminded the crowd that we are not the only education reformers but that many came before us, just as there will be many who come after us.

It's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

The quality of teachers and instruction is another important focus of research today, as reformers are realizing that a teacher's effectiveness in helping kids learn is just as important as his or her knowledge of the material.

So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

In truth, as Jon Schnur, the original architect of Obama's Race to the Top initiative puts it, «No serious reformer says accountability should just be based on test scores.

If you think I'm wrong, that things are working out splendidly and just as advertised, then feel free to skip this article and my recent book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer.

Among other things, he wrote, «It's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public - school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment.»

Just as I reached the conclusion that urban districts can't be fixed and, therefore, we need to create a new delivery system for public education in America's cities, a large and growing number of reformers interested in teacher preparation believe that we can't trust the old system to change adequately and that, instead, we need to create new pathways into the profession.

Arleen Arnsparger, the communications director at the Education Commission of the States in Denver, has seen a sea change in attitudes as reformers have learned that they can't just present their ideas to communities and expect support.

Meanwhile, in declaring that «Schools should teach about the French Revolution, not have their parents act it out», Rotherham reinforces a conceit found far too often found among Beltway reformers (and, as evidenced from Teach For America President Wendy Kopp's thoughtless piece on releasing teacher performance data, even among some operator - oriented reformers): That families — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — just aren't equipped to make smart decisions when it comes to school operations.

These and other critiques have sparked a flurry of internal discussion and debate about the future of the coalition — a fairly healthy conversation as reformers work to grow a more diverse movement, but one that has also left people divided over just how existential these problems really are.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

Both have solid records as urban education reformers, particularly with regard to charter schools, which are built on the belief that parents need sound education options and that the common good is well served by schools run under various auspices, not just by large public - sector bureaucracies.

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

As with so many traditionalists, Cody would rather ignore the fact that reformers actually do talk plenty about addressing poverty, just not in the manner that fits his impoverished worldview on the role education plays in addressing those issues.

It's analogous to the way that «reformers» will let anyone teach, just so long as so doing undermines teachers» unions and destroys teachers» professional status.

It's proof, reformers say, that low - income, minority children can perform just as well as white, affluent, suburban kids.

Charter school opponents and unions point to what has happened here as proof that the reformers» goal is just to privatize education and strip families of their voice in local schools across the country.

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

Although decent responses exist for every one of these concerns, as do sundry ways of curbing their excesses, it's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on test - driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public - school system is apt to yield more backlash than accomplishment.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

my main point is that just as well - meaning progressives are sick of being torn down all the time (the war on teachers) so are well - meaning reformers (and the public).

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

Education reformers can have some confidence he hasn't just been loafing around these last 16 months, even as state education data suggest the popularity of charters could be waning.