Sentences with phrase «most liberal students»

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Conspiracy theories have started to widely circulate claiming that some of the most visible student activists are not actually students but «crisis actors» meant to carry a message for liberals and other anti-gun lobbyists.

The most prevalent argument currently offered on behalf of liberal education is that it best prepares the student for graduate or professional school, for executive leadership in business, or for being a wife or mother in a professional or executive family.

That is why the loudest yelps about white privilege come from pale - skinned students at the most expensive liberal arts colleges.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

Richard Reeves, a former adviser to the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, chastised me for sins varying from my opposition to the coalition Government's threefold increase in student fees to my suggestion that British society is the second most dysfunctional in the rich developed world.

But thanks to the Conservative - Lib Dem measure to raise fees to # 9000 per year, many erstwhile Liberal Democrat voters feel betrayed by the policy reversal, and students most of all.

However, it was the Liberal Democrats» failure to honour the manifesto pledge for England to «Scrap unfair university tuition fees for all students taking their first degree, including those studying part - time, saving them over # 10,000 each» which has proven to be the single most damaging consequence of coalition.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams has since implemented Professor Diamond's recommendations and created the most generous student finance system in the UK.

At Ryerson, I was a bit of an anomaly in a program in which most students had liberal arts backgrounds and many had prior experience in journalism.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

The district's 10 - year - old student - publications policy is considered to be among the most liberal in the nation in recognizing the rights and responsibilities of students to control school newspapers and other publications.

As liberal blogger Matt Yglesias has noted, «Apocalyptic talk about «failing» schools and intense elite focus on the problems of the least - privileged students tends to obscure the more banal reality that most schools are non-optimal in lots of ways.»»

Their reforms, in turn, have successfully steered most American students away from a liberal education, what Ravitch defines as «the systematic study of language and literature, science and mathematics, history, the arts and foreign languages.»

L. A. Williams, an education professor from the University of California — Berkeley, wrote in a 1944 book that most American high - school students of the era were simply «incapable of learning so - called liberal subjects.»

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

The most liberal way of learning, since the students first go through the testing to find out their learning gaps, and then choose what they need to study.

Sadly, in dismissing the classical or liberal arts approach, we've also unintentionally thwarted our most sacred goal: that all students become strong readers.

At most Bard locations, students essentially complete ninth and 10th grade and then transition to a two - year, tuition - free college curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences.

It made liberals squirm because they believed they had the interests of poor students most at heart.

Though we must certainly strive to close racial achievement gaps in mathematics and reading, we run the risk of substituting one form of inequity for another, ultimately denying our most vulnerable students the full liberal arts curriculum our most privileged youth receive almost as a matter of course.

In 1988, Princeton student Wendy Kopp wrote a thesis arguing for a national teacher corps, modeled on the Peace Corps — the archetype of liberal volunteerism — that «would mobilize some of the most passionate, dedicated members of my generation to change the fact that where a child is born in the United States largely determines his or her chances in life.»

Founded in 1905, Concordia University is a Lutheran liberal arts school with over 6,000 students, most of whom are enrolled in online programs.

Their questions ranged from how to make the most of a liberal arts education, to what services students need today, and what is the best way to become knowledgeable about education policy.

POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS: College and university students from low - income families stand to benefit the most from the Liberal government's fiscSTUDENTS: College and university students from low - income families stand to benefit the most from the Liberal government's fiscstudents from low - income families stand to benefit the most from the Liberal government's fiscal plan.

«One of the most exciting things about this relationship with Franklin Furnace is that it will give our students firsthand access to the digital and material archive that will be housed here,» said Andrew Barnes, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who is leading the effort to launch a new M.F.A. in Performance and Performance Studies in fall 2016.

District Clay also offers its students the most liberal Open Studio program of any area ceramic studio by allowing its students to sit on other classes as well as the Sunday Free Studio at no charge.

Many students are guided toward specific careers based strictly on academics when, in fact a good percentage of the most successful Americans majored in Liberal Arts.