Sentences with phrase «as educational activist»
She found her calling as an educational activist in 1968 and in 1973 had her first retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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In her capacity as educational activist, she has given several keynote speeches to organizations such as the World Economic Forum as well as organizations that advocate specifically for children, such as Parents as Teachers.
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In addition to working as an educator, she is also a political activist for positive educational change for children.
Many community activists and school administrators talk about race as a big factor in educational performance, and others mention economic issues — and those are factors.
As the dust settles on the party's choice, the question remains of how, in practical terms — and how much, in political terms — the WFP endorsement will help Nixon, an actress and educational activist making her first run for political office.
Buffalo schools open in a month and a large group of clergy, activists, parents and school leaders turned out Monday night in Friendship Baptist Church for an emergency meeting to discuss what they see as an educational crisis.
Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference Harvard Crimson, 5/4/15 «Judges named two intiatives, Educational Justice Activists and Prepped, as winners at an educational entrepreneurship conference on Friday for students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective.»
We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.
As the son of an educator and activists, El - Mekki had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.
And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).
And as a new generation of African - American activists are coming to the fore, they're saying: Why are these organizations setting the agenda for educational change in our communities and not engaging us in the discussion?
As the son of an educator and activists, I had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.
As the investigators reveal, the billionaires» green network transfers millions of dollars from individual, corporate, and «charitable foundation» donors... through tax - exempt «educational» nonprofits that do not have to disclose donor names... to activist and pressure groups that work to influence elections, legislation, regulations, legal actions and public perceptions on energy and environmental issues.
Based in Cape Town, McDaid started out as a teacher - turned educational advocate and activist against apartheid before turning to faith - based environmental justice.
discussion of science education, and putting aside Edward Greisch's denigration of the humanities, and putting aside the fact that among the most ardent and activist proponents of action against AGW there are many musicians, writers, artists and filmmakers, and putting aside the fact that among the most obstinate and willfully ignorant denialists there are a considerable number of engineers and other technical types who have exactly the sort of educational background that he suggests as an antidote to denialism: