Sentences with phrase «against liberal education»

The reason I'm saying a few things about the ISI week is to dispel the impression that I'm against liberal education and all that....

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And the 2006 and 2008 elections, former Calgary Board of Education trustee Jennifer Pollock carried the Liberal banner against Mr. Anders.

Remember here our Mr. Ceaser's alliance with the sociological left against UVA's Board of Visitors» efforts at disruption against the unproductive liberal arts and toward online education, MOOCS, and such.

Recent defenses of the Greek ideal of liberal education are couched in terms of «forms of knowledge» or publicly distinguishable ways of understanding and organizing experience that are structured around distinctive sets of concepts, statements, and tests against experience (LE 113 - 118).

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

Liberal Democrats went on a full media offensive yesterday in an attempt to show they are against the «Torification» of the schools system, after the education secretary confirmed he would replace Ofsted's chair Sally Morgan when the contract expires this autumn.

Therefore, Elliot's instruction that Labour should team up with Liberals to provide «education'to the «masses» against nationalism and in favour of «liberal and progressive ideals» runs contrary to the Labour Party's historic strength in working - class communities.

There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark against the more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have voted against the Education (Wales) Bill that was presented to Assembly Members earlier this afternoon (Tuesday).

Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

As a result, however, the WFP largely had to sit on its hands while its liberal allies waged war against Cuomo during his first budget, which included large spending cuts to education and health care.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced new rules setting out a presumption against the closure of rural schools.

Zephyr Teachout, a liberal Fordham Law School professor running against Cuomo, said she would fully fund education during a campaign stop in Syracuse.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

Unsurprisingly, the survey confirmed climate change to be a largely politicized issue, viewed too often along party lines instead of according to factual analysis (and both parties are guilty of this, in different ways — there are plenty of liberals who proclaim their allegiance to the fight against global warming without a basic education on the issue).

Elite liberal arts college Amherst voted against partnering with massive open online course (MOOC) non-profit edX this week, bringing attention to institutions» concerns about how MOOCs could impact higher education.