Sentences with phrase «argue against school»

I think we can easily see the flaws in her argument if we consider how the same logic she employs can be used to argue against schools having orchestras, theaters, and a host of other activities.

«We have consistently argued against schools being held to account for raw data alone, and this was something I raised with the committee when giving evidence earlier in the year.

Not exact matches

Sidhak's father, Sagardeep Singh Arora argued that the school discriminated against his son, by not allowing him to wear the patka or have uncut hair - essential parts of his religion.

It amazes me that many on the left cry out about separation of church and state when arguing against prayer in school or the words in god we trust on money.

Even a fourth grader arguing against the implementation of school uniforms in a persuasive essay understands this simple concept.

Also, they argued against any prayer or Bible - reading in the public schools unless it was according to their beliefs.

The political school of thought that supports the view that secularization is the only way forward argues against the Hindutva proponents who aim to revive and recast the role of religion in contemporary India.

Against them, Reagan stands up for his economic and defense record, and argues for school prayer, tuition tax credits and abortion restrictions — not to impose any religious establishment but to restore religious freedom, strengthen traditional «social mores» and protect the unborn.

A Christian, he has been interested in the science and religion debate, arguing against the Intelligent Design school on the one hand and materialism on the other.

These days, it's a lot harder to argue against using a salad bar in a school program than it once was.

These days, it's a lot harder to argue against using a salad bar in a school program than it once was.

The purpose of this report is not to argue for or against home schooling but to describe the provision and practice of a small school where an approach to «flexi - schooling» is widely acknowledged as successfully meeting parents» wishes and children's educational needs.

And I also recognize that you don't have to be a political conservative to object to these incidents; they've also been used as fodder for arguing against GMOs (contained in those Ritz crackers) and against the inextricable links between agribusiness and the federal school meals program, among other issues often raised by the political left.

John P. McCormick has argued that the Cambridge School interpretation of Machiavelli that Pettit admits to relying on fails to see the extent to which Machiavelli is a theorist who relies on the class struggle of the popolo against the ambition of the grandi, the notables, to sustain a republic and is primarily concerned to find ways of empowering the mass against the elites.

In papers submitted by the UK Government last year in the case and seen by the BHA, the Government attempted to argue that there is no breach of EU law because «if a teacher brought a claim against a school (on the basis that the school, as an employer, had discriminated against them in their remuneration, for example), then the court or tribunal would consider the legislation in this wider context.

Discrimination against older teachers in schools has become an increasingly serious problem, representatives at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have argued.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday faulted the Federal Government's directive to schools to resume on September 22 as against October 12, arguing that schools should...

David Parks, head of physics at Graveney school, argues against the new GCSE, saying it shows a «confused and contradictory situation» where ministers promise to increase the number of science graduates but «dumb down» the subject to broaden its appeal.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

County and town opposition has been so strong that the county joined Rockland's five towns, a number of villages and the Nyack School District to form the Municipal Consortium, a coalition arguing against the plant on behalf of local governing bodies.

Jones has been active in arguing against the privatization of schools and standardized testing.

The committee also will hear testimony Monday morning about bullying from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is expected to argue against putting more metal detectors and police officers in city schools.

A state supreme court has ruled against elected officials and education advocates who argue that Cathleen Black is not qualified to be the New York City Schools Chancellor, and should not get a special waiver.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The Council is arguing against the case by saying that it has never thought the schools are needed, and in August, the High Court agreed to hear the case.

The New York State Catholic Conference has argued against the window for years, saying it could potentially cripple parishes, school districts and other nonprofit organizations in cases from decades ago that might be impossible to defend against.

Teachers» unions and public - school advocates have railed against Cuomo, arguing that he's prioritizing privately run charters over traditional public schools.

Schenectady City Schools Superintendent Laurence Spring has filed a federal complaint that argues the state's aid formula discriminates against poor and minority students.

The lawsuit includes 15 schools the United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP saved last year when they filed a similar suit against the Department of Education, arguing that the city had failed to provide enough community feedback.

Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.

«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.

Arguing that she was qualified for tenure and had been discriminated against because she was female, she appealed to the dean of the school of engineering, who organized a committee to examine the matter.

And if my brother and I argued with my father about race — he was an Irishman of the old school, and he hated the English so much he didn't have much energy to hate anyone else — but he had a mild prejudice against blacks.

These days, it's a lot harder to argue against using a salad bar in a school program than it once was.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

March 27, 2018 • Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

While it is reasonable to extrapolate the findings to other urban students who are similar to New York City applicants, we would argue against these results being applied to students who differ substantially from applicants to the charter schools.

Books like Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis and The War Against Boys, sounding uncannily like the girl - empowerment treatises of a decade ago, argue that coed schools actually discourage boys from self - confidence and success, and that problems such as attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) are often the result of a classroom that refuses to let boys be boys.

• Neither the dispersiveness of soft skill reform efforts nor the high genetic loading of abstract soft skills argues against the importance of incorporating soft skills into the intentional mission of schools and classrooms.

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

Of course we need to organize our schools to promote «acquiring background knowledge, accruing expertise, and developing independent learning,» as Alex urges, and who could argue against children growing and developing confidence as learners?

• Epstein says the DOJ and ED err when arguing against disciplinary policies on the basis of «disparate impact,» a phrase with a legal history that, «when applied to schools, imputes race - conscious behavior on the part of school administrators.»

I normally don't tell them to stop because I don't want [them] to turn against or argue with me... I went to the Youth Summit and [a student] talked about how he used to bully and act as a bystander with his friends... The Friday after the Youth Summit before I got out of school for spring break, I tried to get to know the girl my friends make fun of.

Paul Hill, in his introduction to this volume, argues that this is due in part to the difficulty encountered in starting new schools, but also because the playing field has been tilted more sharply against charter schools than the enthusiasts first understood.

The vocabulary can be used to prompt debate for pupils to argue for or against mobiles in school.

The essays have rightly suggested — whether arguing for or against alternative routes, for or against current practice in schools of education — that unless the present and growing shortage of good teachers is overcome, no other efforts at school reform can succeed.

They depict me as arguing against any regulation when my post was explicitly against «high - regulation» of school choice.

In a series of blog posts (I, II, III, IV), Jay Greene argues against the «high - regulation approach» to school choice.

All Else Equal argues, contrary to its own evidence, against trying an approach that can bring better schools to poor children.