Sentences with phrase «as a reformer»

He also suggested that, perhaps, the left is no longer seen as the reformers and defenders of the state and are now merely the latter.

The push for a national curriculum is gaining momentum as reformers press states to acknowledge «world class» benchmarks for student achievement.

As much as reformers may be motivated to promote equity, a basic lesson about political reality is that more advantaged people tend to have more political power.

Our role as reformers involves asking students what they like and want to see in their school and building a rapport with their families to keep us connected to their everyday experiences.

This starts with building stronger ties to chambers of commerce and other institutional groups who are as concerned as reformers about the consequences of the education crisis.

Yes, there are some poor ones, but not nearly as many as reformers want us to believe.

In all likelihood, these teacher - leaders will come to some of the same conclusions as reformers.

Sellers, insists, as reformers frequently do, that it is only white, wealthy families who opt out of standardized testing.

, which aimed to show reporters how researchers are documenting the skills principals need to be powerful instructional leaders, even as reformers build new pipelines to grow the supply.

Is that putting the interests of kids ahead of adults, as the reformers suggest we should always to do?

Through their role as reformers, charter schools inspire traditional schools to reform as well.

In addition to a reputation as a reformer who gets results, Elia brings to the new job a familiarity with Western New York, having attended Rosary Hill College (now Daemen College), the University at Buffalo and SUNY Buffalo State before teaching in Sweet Home.

«We often see governors run as reformers in their first terms, and in their second terms become defenders of the status quo - because they become the status quo,» said Horner.

A heavy metal fan who came to politics by way of selling furniture, Jokowi built on his reputation as a reformer while governor of Jakarta and mayor of Surakarta.

Running as a reformer Soares beat incumbent Clyne in a surprise upset.

The legislative leaders, however, responded that Cuomo was making demands he knew were unacceptable in a politically motivated effort to appear as a reformer because he's under federal investigation for dismantling his anti-corruption Moreland Commission panel.

So, on the assumption that the reader isn't looking for a second career as a reformer, my goal here is just to provide some basic advice on getting started.

For those of you wanting to get up off the floor, Studio Pilates uses equipment such as the Reformer, which uses a sliding platform on a system of pulleys and springs to increase the resistance of your Pilates workout.

«The deal comes as Mr. Cuomo, the Democratic nominee for governor, is seeking to burnish his credentials as a reformer who can clean up state government, and his office has been anxious to secure a plea from Mr. Hevesi.»

Astoria's John Ciafone said he would go to Albany as a reformer with an emphasis on improving education, health care and transportation in his district if elected as the replacement for state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) this fall.

That can help him secure a legacy as a reformer, if he handles China's influence adroitly and meets old pledges to cut the role of the state.

To believe so, you» d have to put as much faith in cash transfers and social services as some reformers put in schools.

Perhaps one of the inadvertent losses of the Protestant Reformation resulted from its zeal to separate itself from the «Sophists,» as Reformers tended to call the Scholastics.

Her work as a reformer and an advocate for democracy in the country has been a decades - long struggle that included 15 years of house arrest under the military junta government.

In fact, seen from the broader cultural context, Jesus can be described as a Reformer of patriarchal society.63 It is worthy to quote from Witherington that, «taking all the probably authentic material in the gospels together, it would appear that Jesus was a reformer of patriarchal society.

In supporting Faso at an event at Begnal Motors in Kingston, Astorino cited Faso's long standing record as a reformer who cut taxes and spending, balanced budgets and stood as check against big government and its bureaucracy.

We come from all sides of the Conservative Party, and are writing as reformers to express our serious concern at the current proposals to create an elected House of Lords.

Sini, a Democrat who campaigned as a reformer, embraced adherence to ethics in a 19 - minute address after his swearing - in by Sen. Chuck Schumer.

The Senate Democrats, who stand to pick up seats if the Republicans who have long controlled the Senate no longer have the power to draw electoral boundaries, have become gadflies on the redistricting issue, despite their dubious standing as reformers, after having done nothing to fix the process during their own chaotic two - year stint in the Senate majority.

Witness the emphasis on a canon within the canon, Luther's response to the Anabaptists on the question of infant baptism, as well as both Reformers» insistence that the Word always stands in juxtaposition to faith and that neither is possible without the activity of the Holy Spirit.

Educators have long held new technology at arm's length, and probably for good reason: For more than a century, they have looked on as reformers pushed a series of mostly ill - fated technical innovations, each touted as the Next Big Thing.

Before her tenure began, DeVos was known as a reformer in the K - 12 space, but her views on higher education were not well known.

Modi's political success and promises of economic reform in spite of these bumps suggest that the new prime minister could function as a reformer in the American mold.

In her Buffett biography «The Snowball,» Alice Schroeder writes that, «Buffett's testimony in Congress as the reformer and savior of Salomon had turned him from a rich investor into a hero.

In making such a payment, Nebuchadnezzar is not «redeeming himself,» as the Reformers thought Catholics were claiming.

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).

And we must resist it as resolutely as the Reformers resisted the mistaken human opinions in Catholic theology at the time.

While the Vatican's Secretary of State praised him for a papal term marked by «joy», Catholic figures in the UK hailed the 81 - year - old as a reformer who has improved perceptions.

It's suggested that the Dalai Lama comes to think of Chinse leader Mao Tse - tung as a reformer for good, with a flawed means to an adulterated vision.

However, as a reformer Cromwell could be encouraged: «You are capable of accomplishing very many things throughout the whole kingdom, and with the Most Serene Lord King you can do much good.

On Stricherz's telling, a Democratic - party activist named Fred Dutton emerged as the reformers» chief theoretician.

(Forgiveness of sin is the central theme of the Bible, as the Reformers perceived with unerring insight.

I realise that Cameron has most peers on his side — including, sadly, many Labour ones, some friends of mine who entered as reformers and ended up «going native».

Which leads to Eliot Spitzer as reformer.

Since Governor Spitzer won office as a reformer his misuse of police power was that much more of a disappointment.

While Cuomo is not accused of wrongdoing and isn't expected to testify, the charges against Percoco have damaged both his image as a reformer and one of his signature policy initiatives, the investment of billions of dollars in public money in to upstate economic development programs.